Some rambles about our rambles

Friday, 25 July 2014

Hof Art Now

The Bangkok traffic hasn't got any better. This taxi managed to block the five lane road outside the hotel for five minutes with a very ill timed U-turn.

We spent yesterday with local boy Jim so we took in a few more unusual sights. Including a detor through this Japanese shopping mall.

Then a stop off at a small coffee shop that serves Soya milk.

We spent most of the afternoon checking out an indie Art gallery called Hof Art Now.

We got chatting to one of the curators of the gallery, for anyone who does a bit of art and goes to indie galleries in far off lands this is a surprisingly normal occurrence. After checking out some of the interesting bits in the gallery and the artsy area around the gallery we headed off for a chill out by the pool.

We didn't actually go in the pool due to the weather, see rain clouds behind by very wooden pose in the photo underneath. We chatted to some of Jim's friends, including C who it was great to meet again. As usual C cooked us some amazing food.

For all of our relatives concerned re: Jim's health hopefully this picture demonstrates his good heath and cheer. Also not the steak promotion behind his head, £2 for a steak dinner!

We have just spent another pleasant day today with Jim checking out the Thailand happiness festival, very happy, and drinking more coffee.

Tomorrow Vietnam.

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Back, seems like it's been for EVA

Back in Bangkok, so very humid, was it this humid before?

I was feeling a little grim when we boarded the plane yesterday, I think it was the common bug endoftermfluenza, so wasn't looking forward to 12 hours in a Pringles tube. I think the airline fairy's were smiling on us though as we were given emergancy exit seats, we had so much leg room I could have had a nap on the floor. We had the pleasure of flying with EVA Air the Taiwanese airline. The plane was very clean and well maintained, and the flight staff were very smartly dressed and attentive, the food however was very close to inedible. Interestingly EVA are the consumer arm of Evergreen container shipping.

After the Taiwanese efficiency we were very surprised that getting across the Thai boarder was equally as efficient. We were at our hotel in central Bangkok about an hour after getting off the plane.

So far we have raised three different sets of eyebrows with our very minimal luggage. For our four week trip we are only carrying small backpacks each, so small that both could fit into the box the airlines use to check the size of airline carry on bags. The lady who checked us onto the plane gave an audible noise of surprise when she realised just how little luggage we were carrying. Time will tell if we have over done the packing light.

We have just finished our first ice coffee, after a very sweaty walk around Lumpini Park. Now we are off to meet up with my brother who is going to take us to a new, aircon'ed, art gallery. It really is very humid.

Sunday, 4 May 2014

Sunny, Sunny Spain

It has been nearly two years to the day since our last blog post. I suppose we left the blog a bit up in the air. Our last post told of our voyage to our final destination on our round the world trip, China. One day we may even post the blogs from China.

Since our return home we have moved house twice, welcomed the newest addition to our family; Burrito, maintained employment for longer than a year and continued to travel, albeit a little bit closer to home and for a lot less time than we might desire!

We still both have itchy feet to travel and are currently planning our trip when we have a month off in the summer.

We have decided to start blogging again more for the memories ourselves, I quite often have flashbacks to our big trip and check the blog to remember where it was that we had that amazing dish or stayed it that random hostel.

For now we will post from our latest trip- Murcia, Spain. We stayed in the village of Covera with Matt’s Mom and Dad (the trip was a Christmas present, for which we are very grateful). The holiday was not a normal one for us, no weird and wonderful modes of transport (just the local bus) or dingy hotel rooms in remote places (very modern and pleasant apartment block!), just a relaxing sunny family holiday, just what we needed to keep us going to the next trip!