Turtle conservation centre
April 15, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Batik painting with Art
April 16, 2025 in 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 batikRead more
Some of Art's work
April 16, 2025 in 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 allRead more
A short break in creating
April 16, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Art disappeared off on his moped and returned with milk tea and pastel de nata!
Our finished creation
April 16, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Including some minor adjustments made by Art to correct some mistakes!
And the added bonus...
April 16, 2025 in 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
April 16, 2025 in 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....
April 16, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Pool and surfing
April 16, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Joseph is standing up..... Matt.......hmmmm 😂
Final visit to Bang Niang market
April 16, 2025 in 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 tookRead more
Matt was a little peckish...
April 16, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Morning at the hotel
April 17, 2025 in 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
April 17, 2025 in 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
April 17, 2025 in 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, padRead more
Traumatic last day!
April 18, 2025 in 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 believeRead more
Our last dinner in Thailand
April 18, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Goodbye to Khao Lak
April 19, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Goodbye Thailand 😢
April 19, 2025 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Arabella has spent most of the morning in tears because she doesn't want to leave 💔
Kuala Lumpur airport
April 19, 2025 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Dinner at hard rock cafea and piano playing
Goodbye...or not
April 19, 2025 in 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 hoursRead more
Making the most of KL
April 20, 2025 in 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 isRead more
Waiting for the coach
April 20, 2025 in 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 theRead more
Homeward bound finally!
April 20, 2025 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
Back on British soil
April 21, 2025 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
