Sawadee Today has been a sensation of tastes for our mouths and tummies. We took a 1 day Thai cookery course with Baan Thai (means Thai House) to learn how to prepare and cook Thai food. As with any good food you start at the beginning which means visiting the market to get ingredients and supplies for the days cooking. Off we went with our baskets, we spent an hour looking around the market touching and feeling the produce and having a good sniff at things. K...

Sawadee everybody and hello from Chiang Maii here in Northern Thailand. I know you must have all missed our blog yesterday so I will bring you up to speed with what has been going on. Our train journey from Bangkok was an experience shall we say the 1st class compartment was excellent and we got a meal in our room (at extra cost,there was no dining car) the whole trip was going well and nice and relaxed. We turned in early and neither of us could get to sleep. ...

Sawadee We had a well earned lie in this morning then concocted a plan to just take it easy. First job of the day was bartering with the taxi driver for a ride down to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. It took a bit of determination but we got 150THB knocked off. One thing that is crazy in Bangkok is the traffic, you cannot get anywhere quick unless on the river and the cab ride took 40 minutes to go about 2 miles!!!! After lunch we spent time on the Chao Praya Riv...

Sawadee Well what a jammed pack blog we have for you today, after rising at 6am on a Sunday we were whizzing through the streets of Bangkok and then out on the highway to Kanchanaburi and the war cemetery to commemorate the soldiers that lost their lives building the Death Railway to Burma, there are over 3,000 graves in this one cemetery. It was then onto the bridge and when I say the bridge I mean The Bridge over the River Kwae (Kwai) we got to walk right alo...

Sawadee Last Night we braved the Khao San Road and were pleasantly surprised. You can get everything here. Cheap clothes, cheap food and cheap everything else. It seems to be non-stop and the sellers are persistent but you can pick up a bargain if you barter well, last night we picked up a wooden frog that croaks, it reminded us of our time in Koh Tao and was a quid!!! It's been Day 2 in the ladyboy capital and we took in a couple of sights today. The sun was o...