The rest of orientation in Bangkok was superb. On the Weds evening we met our co-ordinators at the schools we'll be teaching at, mine is Kru Oh and she's lovely. We all had a nice dinner together, accompanied by gorgeous children in full-Thai regalia doing traditional acting and dancing which was so good. That night a few of us enjoyed a couple of Singha beers (less than a quid!!!) up on the roof. Thursday morning we travelled about 2.5 hours to Kanchanburi, whe...

Sawatdeeka :)! We went to the Grand Palace yesterday morning... the King was visiting there that afternoon so it was immaculate. It was absolutely amazing. Seeing as it was built in 1782 I can't believe there's so many vibrant colours and such attention to detail. Most of the columns are made of individual mosaics and mirrors. After our two hours there we went for lunch at a navy club and the food was, of course, spectacular. We had spicy tom yum soup, seafood, v...

Our hotel has free internet, woo, only half hour at a time though and this keyboard is confusing me so excuse spelling mistakes. The journey wasn't too bad: great films and food, what more could I want. I saw the Herne Bay wind farms and the pier and my house as we flew over! If time-travel was invented I'd prefer that option as 14 hours is a long time in an plane seat, but the flights went smoothly and the transfer onto a different plane to Bangkok from Doha was...