While Fiona’s parents were in Thailand we all went to visit some friends of theirs who are teaching in an international school near Pattaya. Pictures are here.
Now Pattaya has a bit of a reputation but don’t get the wrong idea - even though it was Mike’s 30th birthday while we were there - […]

Pat, Scott, Fiona and Mike caught a taxi with an entertaining driver this morning to see one of Bangkok’s must see attractions, Wat Phra Kaew or the Grand Palace, also home to the Emerald Buddha. The admission included passes to the National Treasures museam which was full of historical rgalia, royal decorations and […]

Seeing as we were stuck in the city for the weekend, we decided to go on an exploratory mission to find a climbing wall in Bangkok. There were rumors on a local climbing site about a free 15m outdoor wall being the best place in town to pull on plastic. Click on the […]

Fiona and I decided to do a little further exploring in Bangkok today, so we took the Skytrain to the last stop at the central river pier. The Chao Phraya River is the main river that runs through Bangkok. We took a river boat to a popular tourist area near the […]

We took a train from Bangkok to Lopburi where we stayed one night. Click the album image below to see the photos.

Since this was our first foray away from the metropolis we figured we would try for an interesting small town not too far away. It’s really easy to get to the Hualamphong train […]

After reading about Pantip Plaza, I knew I had to check it out. Plus I needed to find a new computer case and power supply to house the guts of my dissembled computer that I bought with me. 5 floors of computer hardware, software (mostly counterfeit), DVD’s and all things technology. […]