Georgie booked us a car to take us to the floating market in Damnoen Saduak. We drove out of the city for about an hour passing salt farms with bags of salt piled by their gates. As we drove further from Bangkok the vegetation was more jungle like. This was to be a totally different experience from when I was here with Chrissie. We opted for the two hour long tail boat ride and sped through green vegetation of the klongs until we came to the market. It was total grid lock with tourist boats and market boats, some piled high with fruit, some with cooking pots steaming away with, no doubt, tasty food. We "conveniently" got stuck, several times, next to boats selling souvenirs and the children bought some odds and bobs. I’m pleased to ... read more

We were all excited as we set off at 11.45 this morning on our way to Malaga Maria Zambrano train station. We left the car at Red Car Parking and they gave us a lift to the station. It was so good to get on the cool, comfortable, air conditioned train to Madrid. We looked out over the golden, sun bleached, landscape and acres of olive groves as we sped by. We took a taxi to Madrid airport. It was a three hour wait before our flight but it passed by quickly. How ever, our 22.05 pm Emirates flight to Dubai seemed a very long flight indeed. We had intended to sleep but not a lot of sleeping was achieved - we were all pretty shattered when we got to Dubai. Then we had to get ... read more