hey friend finally found your blog... I miss you. Things are just the same hear so dont worry about coming back and finding that we all have moustaches.
Hey Darcy. You have no idea how jealous I am. I'm sitting here drooling while reading about the deliciousness. It's freaking cold in Calgary, but at least it's snowing in the mountains. Glad to hear you are having a great time now.
loi krathong hey darcy,
i'm glad you are having a better time. chiang mai is a little more low key than bangkok. loi krathong is lots of fun. be careful of crazy fireworks and don't let your lantern light a tree on fire like i did last year. say hi to your brother.
chop dii (good luck)
mir
mmmm cooking class! you must learn and then share with me. i am thinkiing of moving home actually in the new year. good idea? i think it might be. i just made a tofu marinade from my favourite cookbook, then i will make a crispy coating and fry those suckers up. happy halloween! lovelovelove
Some Southeast Asian Tips Perhaps it's because we spent three months in Cambodia before getting to anywhere remotely first world that we don't have the same opinion of Bangkok. It's our refuge. Yes, it's loud and busy and people want your money, but there's also great food, great shopping and tons of stuff to do. Read guide books before going anywhere, take what they say with a grain of salt, and put them away when you're in public. If you look like a backpacker and stay with the backpackers, you'll be treated like a backpacker. Tourism is THE industry there so many often see conning you as the way to their next meal. I know that here in Phnom Penh, the backpacker district is the grottiest, dodgiest, sketchiest, most disgusting pit to stay in. If you stay away from it, though, you meet people who aren't offering you drugs or a lady for the night and you can have a good time with genuinely kind people. For the true low down on places to stay, go to www.travelfish.org . I updated their Phnom Penh section and I know Thailand is current. Wear bug spray and you won't get malaria. Don't tease the monkeys and you won't get rabies. And you will get a parasite no matter what you do, but you'll get over it with some cheap anti-biotics. Hope it gets better. Just think how cold you would be if you went home!
on bangkok don't worry, everything is better when you're not in that stinkhole city. are you staying on khao san road? cause that also doesn't help. if you end up not liking other places in thailand, i recommend laos. it's a pretty safe place and you don't feel so much like a walking sack of dollah dollah bills .
buck up. bangkok is suckier than everywhere else.
Come and see me in N.Z. It's cold, clammy and painfully british but delightfully disease free. Unfortunately you'll have to come and see me in the next ten days. If you can't muster that degree of spontaneity, i'm sure Thailand will prove more endurable once you flee Bangkok.
Reginally yours,
paul
The Open Road
Kris and Dennie
hey friend
finally found your blog... I miss you. Things are just the same hear so dont worry about coming back and finding that we all have moustaches.