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Leaving on a jet plane!
Passport: tickInter. Drivers license: tickTyphoid needle: tickMalaria tablets: tickThai baht: tickSuitcase: tickiPad: tickAnyone sense there is a holiday soon? Jan and Kathy are at the airport on our...
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New Year's Eve
We spent several hours in the huge shopping centre between stores, buying mobile phones and SMS cards for the phones and ipads then had to go to another store to get them all to work! But we are now...
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New Years day
What a day today was. We were due to leave Bangkok at 9am for Mae Sot which is north about 550 km. But no rental car was delivered as organized. So after waiting awhile, I rang the phone number on the...
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Wed Jan 2
We arrived at our guest house at about 6 last night and met Andrews friends: Thant who manages the guest house and Maung Maung Tinn a local artist (who gave Jan and I a calendar with his beautiful...
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More about New Years Eve
Thought I might go into a bit more detail about NYE as it really was an experience. We left the hotel with a map and headed for the subway about a kilometer away. As we got closer to where it was to...
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Thursday Jan 3
We left this morning at 7:30 to drive to the school at Blatoh which is on the Thailand/Burma border in the Karen state in Burma. It is about 150 km from Mae Sot but took us nearly 5 hrs. On the way we...
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Friday Jan 4
Nearly caught up! We have been out of service area for the last few days and I've gotten behind with my blog!Today we went back to the school. All the children were dressed in the clothes that my...
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Saturday 5 Jan
The last two days have been very emotional seeing the children with so few resources at the school and visiting some of the villages. Throughout the villages are dirt roads ( often swept clean) and...
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Sunday 6 Jan
Back to Mae Sot this morning. Left at 8:30am, 17C and prepared ourselves for the rocky ride back. Mountains on one side of the road, treacherous drops on the other, constantly swerving to miss...
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Monday 7 Jan
We drove to the border of Thailand and Burma this morning. It is much more open than it used to be but there are still people crossing illegally by boats. Burmese who do not have visas come over and...
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Tuesday 8 Jan
This morning we went with Big to pick up the children for the Special School. The houses didn't seem as run down as the homes from yesterday. On the way we dropped off some meat at the orphanage, which...
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Wednesday 9 Jan
This morning we had to visit the IT shop Gigahertz as Jan's iPad decided to freeze. We couldn't do anything with it...we couldn't even get it to turn off! So for all of you out there, in case anything...
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Thursday Jan 10
This morning on the way to breakfast we saw some men putting up a loud speaker..have a look at the wiring...pretty scary!! Much of their advertising is done by loud speaker. At 7:30am, Sunday morning...
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Jan and I went to Star Flower Special school for the day. One of the teachers was away but there were four teacher aides for 11 students but as they are special school children their needs are so...
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Karen New Year Sat Jan 12
OMG!!!! What an exciting adventure this morning!!! Left about 6 to go to the Karen New Year in Burma. Have a look at our mode of transport across the river which is the border! (These things go...
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Sat night/Sunday
For dinner Sat night, Jan and I went to the spectacular restaurant...I have never seen anything like it before. It was built as a tropical rain forest with streams, waterfalls and beautiful plants. The...
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Monday 14 Jan
Traveling day! All packed up, Jan and I left Mae Sot after breakfast for Kanchanaburi! ( Can actually remember how to pronounce and spell some of these names.)The start to a beautiful drive, the sun...
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Tues 15 Jan
This morning after our cuppa's, we found a beautiful bunch of flowers and thought we'd try all the filters that are a feature of our cameras.(Jan and I have the same camera which has worked a treat...
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Wed 15 Jan
Viewed the sunrise this morning as we had an early start! We played tourist today, joining a bus group to the Ewaren Falls. There are seven levels to the falls and I was so pleased with myself making...
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Thurs 17 Jan
Happy Birthday to Jan!Jan got up at the crack of dawn this morning to hopefully see sunrise at the cemetery for the POW's but that didn't work so she went down to see the Bridge on River Kwai but was...
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