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One Night in Bangkok Monday Morning was a slow start to the day as we had a much wanted sleep in and took our time to wonder down to breakfast, the boys were up early and had already had breaky and where on the move to go back to MBK for some last minute shopping. We had planned to meet up at 1pm to go Cabbages & Condoms which is a restaurant about 30 minutes away by train and foot and had the most awesome Thai food and is quite reasonably priced and both boys wanted to go so they could get their stash of free condoms ;) After lunch we made our way back to the hotel to have our last night in the Exec Lounge and did the boys make the most of it, ... read more

First Day of Relaxation We awoke at 8:30am to our first day in Bangkok still pretty tired from our late arrival in the early hours of the morning due to our very late check departure from Melbourne yesterday, We finally got our boarding call at 5:30 and took off at 6:06pm and arrived in Bangkok at 12midnight Bangkok time which was 3:00 am back in Oz. We met the boys down stairs for breakfast as they were up and ready to go before us, running on adrenaline as I am sure Tim had no sleep on board the plane and Mat got a couple of hours only. We had a lovely relaxed breakfast........ great spread as usual and then wandered up to the Executive floor to have a decent cup of coffee and hot chocolate and ... read more

Dumb and Dumber Well it is that time again and we are off to the land of smiles. This year we have our eldest son Tim and his best mate Matt in tow, A graduation present to themselves. It will be very interesting to say the least as Matt has never been any further than the Gold Coast Qld let alone overseas and away from home for more than a week by himself. Tim on the other hand is well travelled and this will be his 3rd time in Thailand but his 1st experience being legal and will see it in a very different light. This will be a nice change for us this time around as we have planned a two day dive trip to the Phi Phi Islands and Paul to get his deep ... read more

That burning feeling Wednesday morning came and after getting some sleep I was feeling better and starving after not having had anything to eat since 6am the day before. We headed off to breakfast where after trying to stomach some coffee and water melon I discovered that unfortunately all the vomiting from the night before had led to me burning my digestive tract so anything even slightly acidic caused a great deal of pain. Luckily we had nothing planned for today before lunch so we watched a few movies and caught up on some sleep. We were meeting our lovely friend Wannee for lunch at 1pm today. Wannee worked at the hotel when we first came to Thailand in 2007 and has been our companion at breakfast every year since and became a good friend. We ... read more

Just the way it was when we left? We went for breakfast early on our first morning as we are off on our Thai Cooking course with the crew from Phuket Thai Cookery School. Just a light breakfast as we are assured that we will be eating lots throughout the day, on the menu we have Tom Yam Goong, Phad Thai, Khao Niew Mamuang, Kaeng Kiew Wan Gai, Kai Pad Med Ma Muang and Poa Pea Tod or in other words hot and spicy prawn soup, stir fried noodles with prawns, sticky rice and mango, green curry chicken and spring rolls. After being picked we were taken to the biggest fresh food market in Phuket where we were shown how to choose the freshest ingredients and also picked up some of the ones we would require ... read more