Well after a long flight from Heathrow to Singapore the short 2 hour flight to Bangkok was quick in comparison. We arrived safely and were picked up by Shirley who is kindly putting us up. Friday night we went to dinner at a Thai restaurant with some of her friends, Eddie and Ying and their niece Ohm, where we ate traditional food and Mark was introduced to a few of the spicier dishes. Saturday we went with Eddie and Ying to their fruit tree farm about two hours outside of Bangkok. They have about 17 acres of land which they are growing fruit trees on including mango trees, papaya trees, dragon fruit, jack fruits and noina (custard apples!) trees which we helped to pick. Mark had a go at cutting out Bamboo shoots that are used
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