This weekend wasn't quite so exciting as some, primarily because it started at 6.30am on Saturday morning when I woke up to go to work. Yes, you read right, work... on a Saturday, which we were told we wouldn't get paid for. It shouldn't really have been dubbed 'English Camp' seeing as we weren't actually staying overnight, it was just a day thing at the nearby Paradise Resort. Paradise it was not; hadn't been refurbished since at least the eighties, smelt of sew...

After last month's amazing visit to Koh Samet me and the girlies decided that spending Valentine's weekend there was definately on the cards. As the nights on the island are far too much fun to miss out on we thought we'd travel down after school... on Friday the 13th. I snuck out of school an hour early (it was English Day and the kids were running riot doing various activities, and all the other teachers had shot off at lunch so I figured I wouldn't be missed!...

After a weekend of all-go in Kanchanaburi I thought I needed to spend the next one doing something more relaxing. It was yet another long weekend here as Monday was Makha Bucca Day, which seemed to be a celebration of Buddha combined with another Chinese New Year shin-dig. Whatever the occasion, I'm always happy for a day off work, so decided to go North to Sukhothai, one of the ancient capitals of Thailand which is crammed full of ruined wats (temples). Saturda...

My chocka-block weekend in Kanchanaburi was the week before last now, but this it the first chance I've had to actually sit down (in an internet cafe with huge squishy first class style aeroplane seats AND 60p smoothies!) and write about it. The last ten days or so have been pretty hectic as am covering lots of extra classes for an absent teacher; I do have a job to do in between my weekendly jaunts don't forget! So my weekend in Kanchanaburi was pretty last min...

After a bit of a crazy and indulgent weekend in Koh Samet the week before last I thought I should follow-up with a bit of a tamer one, so decided to split my weekend between shopping and sight-seeing, my two favourite pastimes. Headed off to Bangkok on Saturday morning... at 6.30am! Why so ridiculously early I hear you ask in shock and horror?! Well, I was meeting a friend at Chatuchack market in the North of Bangkok and it turns into a chaotic busy place by aro...