Hi everybody, After flying for a long time, we arrived safe and well in Koh Samui. What a change from -5C and snow to 30 something !!!!!! The flight to HongKong was good, a little bit more legroom would have been nice, but great airplane food, even Remmert eat most of it. Lots of movies and games for the kids and I slept most of the trip ( I guess some catching up to do). Arriving at the airport of HongKong, we understood why this is the capital of shopping....... even the airport had anything and everything to offer, even Starbucks) [View Full Entry]

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Wel, things seem to happen just before you leave.............. needed a new stove , a lost bankcard (there goes my shopping..................), some burned food later, we will be off in 2 hours. Peter will pick us up and off we go, next one will be from Ko Samui. We are staying in the Ko Samui Resort (http://www.kohsamuiresort.com) I will be sitting in one of those chairs on the beach If you want to contact us, it can go through "Add Comment" or for more private " Send Message to the Dutchies" Love to you all, Mir [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, Well we are still planning the last few details fo our trip. Main things are organized. One of the places in Thailand that we will visit is an orpanage for Thai children who are HIV-positive or have AIDS. Karen and Ricky are the main care givers, they started this 6 months ago and as of now they look after 8 children. They are planning on expanding within the next year. The kids school had a Christmas concert and collected around 1000.00 CAD in donations. We are leaving Vancouver at 1.45 AM (would Starbucks still be open at that time [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, Well we have had two weeks of rain, snow and -20 C here in Chilliwack and we are getting more and more excited, in 43 days we will be leaving to Thailand and Australia. We have travelled with the kids to Holland, Mexico and the States, but now we are going somewhere unknown to us........and what is more interesting NOT MUCH is planned, except some flights within Thailand and our stays in the BIG city of Bangkok and Sydney. As some of you might know, we are kind of planners and organizers, so this trip will be a new [View Full Entry]

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