Shrimping and crabing 🦐🦀🎣

For 1st time, fishing for shrimps and crabs, coached by X's uncle (and grandma) before spending a night (joking and laughing) in his room at grandma's to get ready to catch the flight downsouth at theRead more
Travelling downsouth

Catching a flight, a van, a tuktuk then a long tail boat to get to a bay downsouth. 🛩🚐🛺🛶
Out to islands [part 1]

Quickly grabbed breakfast before catching a speedboat to visit islands... this one is Talay (sea) Wag (split)...wayyy too busy, unlike when we came in 2007. 🏝🚤
Out to islands [part 2]

1st time snorkeling for X. He enjoyed it though, apart from lucky Mark, we got motion sickness. Poor X tried his best hold on to his breakfast. Then we visited Phi Phi Island and had to stop there forRead more
Out and about [part 3]

We wanted to go back (because of the motion sickness) but the captains (who coached us how to pose 😅) wanted to make sure we didn't miss a thing, so they took us to Pi Leh lagoon and Maya beachRead more
Out and about [part 4]

Up early to get to see more islands. We were 2nd on 1st island🏝 At Koh Lao Lading, still it was nice and quiet. 🚤
Out and about [part 5]

Nipped to Koh Pakbia before Koh Hong at which we spent hours as it was so clean, nice, quiet and gorgeous 😍 🏝
Out and about [part 6]

Wish we could spend days and nights here in Hong island. 🏝🚤
Out and about [part 7]

Last but not least at Hong lagoon, then back to enjoy our less than £35 dinner for four people with 2 beers and 2 cocktails ... cheers. 🍻 🍹🍸
Last day in the south

Just a relaxing day around the resort before catching our flight back tomorrow. 🌴🍹🍻💆♀️
Last night and the next day checking out

Our lovely last dinner and the next morning downsouth. Then back to BKK and enjoyed another Japanese meal for dinner. A massive green hippo that grandma had ordered for X arrived when we got back toRead more
Ayutthaya old town

Enjoyed river shrimps freshly cooked (and had been fished) by uncle for breakfast. Then grandma and her sister kindly took us to Ayutthaya within a very short notice (unplanned as Mark had only justRead more
A day in Ayutthaya 🛕 [part 1]

We also enjoyed attacking massive bowl of beef noodles and ....
A day in Ayutthaya [part 2]

... visiting a new zoo in Ayutthaya. 🦁🐘🦜
And the sound of people trying to get some sleep NOT. 😴
Learning how to fish

Learning how to fish with Grandma and uncle. 🎣🐟
Staying in at Grandma

1st and the only day we decided to stay in for the entire day without going out at all. Mark enjoyed reading and helped putting films on windows, X enjoyed playing games and Lotte enjoyed being boredRead more
Heading east on a roadtrip

After getting bored, we (X and Lotte) decided after we had woken up that we wanted to go to the beach instead of staying in BKK. Grandma and uncle drove us 6 hours to Koh Chang (1st Thai island MarkRead more
Heading back out to another province

Hoping for a nice day as it was Thai mother's day but the weather was still dull, so we decided to drive out off the island to wherever.... we thought at the time as we wanted to get out of the rain.Read more
Another beach ⛱️

We decided to head to Pattaya (where Lotte, her family and friends often visited for a weekend break until it got spoiled. But it looks much cleaner now) to break the journey. We sat by the beach forRead more
Heading back to BKK

The day before catching our flight back. Aunt Aew and Jewels came to take us out for lunch to say goodbye. 😊
Back to BKK

Back to BKK to get packing to go back to England. Got to grab another Japanese dinner before watching Jurasic Park. Then grandma dropped us at the hotel near by the airport. As we felt it would be tooRead more
Leaving BKK & Arriving in Zurich

A bumpy start of the journey as we were told at the check-in that Mark's ticket was not booked and the staff at the counter mentioned that it would be some fees incurred. Thanks God, X and Lotte wereRead more
Arrived back to the UK safely 🙏

Arriving late last night then getting up at 4am in Zurich to catch our early flight and arriving in the UK 🇬🇧 finally .... safe and sound (...and together ❤️).
Ps missing Thailand alreadyRead more