Turtle conservation centre
15. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Batik painting with Art
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
This morning we escaped the rain to spend an amazing 2 hours with Art.he is a batik artist that lives very frugally in a 1 roomed house/studio. He provides the opportunity to create a bespoke batikLes mer
Some of Art's work
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
You cannot appreciate the skill involved in this until you have tried to create batik. We saw these when we arrived and were impressed but having spent a morning creating our own, we are allLes mer
A short break in creating
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Art disappeared off on his moped and returned with milk tea and pastel de nata!
Our finished creation
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Including some minor adjustments made by Art to correct some mistakes!
And the added bonus...
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Art is also a musician and was delighted to share his guitar with Joe....this is the longest he hasn't played guitar for since he started!
Bubble tea and donuts
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Kids have been desperate to try this place and finally it was open when we were hungry enough! 3 doughnuts and 3 bubble teas....£1!
Jeff....
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Pool and surfing
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Joseph is standing up..... Matt.......hmmmm 😂
Final visit to Bang Niang market
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
This place has been a real highlight. Bustling but very safe and great fun with lots of bargains to be had!
This evening the kids got Roti which are like slightly more bread like crepes which we tookLes mer
Matt was a little peckish...
16. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Morning at the hotel
17. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
The kids queuing for iced green milk tea at breakfast and pool and lunch with friends (Daniel and Aimee from Nottingham)
Fresh market
17. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Rin collected us from our hotel and took us to explore the local fresh market. He gathered the ingredients we needed before taking us to his home to cook
Thai cookery class
17. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We arrived at Rin's home where we were greeted by his wife, sister and son (and the family dogs!) the whole family helped us to prepare and cook Thai food including spring rolls, papaya salad, padLes mer
Traumatic last day!
18. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Enjoying our final day in Thailand...
Sat on my lounger admiring a kingfisher on the beach, felt something drop on me, turned around and there's a snake!!!! I lept up screaming and Matt didn't believeLes mer
Our last dinner in Thailand
18. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Goodbye to Khao Lak
19. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Goodbye Thailand 😢
19. april 2025, Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Arabella has spent most of the morning in tears because she doesn't want to leave 💔
Kuala Lumpur airport
19. april 2025, Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Dinner at hard rock cafea and piano playing
Goodbye...or not
19. april 2025, Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Just about to board the flight when Joseph realised he had left his iPad in hard rock cafe! A sprint through the airport with mummy retrieved it just in time.
Then we sat on the plane for over 2 hoursLes mer
Making the most of KL
20. april 2025, Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Fortunately our hotel has a pool... unfortunately we didn't have any swimmers or spare clothes in our carry on bags. A trip to the mall adjoining the hotel just about solved that.
Our food isLes mer
Waiting for the coach
20. april 2025, Malaysia ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C
The hotel and food have been really good which has made the delay bearable.arabella created her own Michelin style desert which she was very proud of.
Then we got ready and waited on the lobby for theLes mer
Homeward bound finally!
20. april 2025, Malaysia ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
Back on British soil
21. april 2025, England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C



































































































































































