Saturday 3 October I simply love love love this place and am so glad we got to stay here. We eat and pack our bags and relax on the roof. The roof is such a nice space. We ask the owners to arrange a taxi for us to town and we share it with some other ppl making it quite cheap indeed. It's pretty much straight off the taxi into the bus and it's a noisy bumpy ride. The horn is so blaring and the driver seems to have many many occasions to use it. The toilet at t...

Friday 2 October It's a lovely relaxing morning to enjoy with out any pressure catching up on things. We have a nap and go for a long walk through the countryside. There are hundreds on bamboo rafts on the river today ferrying ppl up and down, shading with umbrellas. It looks like a rainbow. There are two men with nets collecting tags from the drivers when they go under the bridge. Not quite sure what they mean. We see butterflies and chickens, ducklings and far...

Thursday 1 October We are up for breakfast before 9. The plan is moon hill and town and back. Each is about 8 km away in a triangle. We head off on mountain bikes for for use by the house. On advise of another guest, a man from hungry working here for a year, we head off 'the back way'. It starts off mainly paved and along the river until we turn off into a small thin path that weaves itself between ppl's gardens and rice paddy's. The all the surrounding hills ...

Wednesday 30 September Malcolm wakes me from a deep sleep. But we have to get up apparently! Off the train we get through the station and met by many ppl offering rides. We were going to wait until later to get a ride, but there is nowhere to wait. We accept a ride with a taxi driver to the bus going where we need to go. They let us on and put an English movie on about a dog. When we arrive it's beautiful and surrounded by gorgeous mountains and greenery. We jus...