The travels of Justin

Quite a good day today, despite having to leave the beach this morning. We woke up in a rainstorm. Before leaving our place, we stopped at our favourite restaurant and the owner actually shared the recipe for the Hat Sak Hiew Prawns. He even gave up a package of tempura mix, just to be sure [...]

It’s 7 pm on our last day on the beach. Tomorrow morning we’re making the trek back to Bangkok. We’ll probably stay in a place cheaper than the Thai Cozy House, but not by much. We’re hoping to fit in a visit to Chinatown, the Grand Palace, and meeting up with some Canadian ex-pat’s living [...]

Day Four in Koh Samet and our sunburns are starting to heal enough to really enjoy the warm ocean water again, though not without a good lathering of SPF 50. We haven’t really explored the island, and don’t really intend to, but we’ve walked out of the park to visit some local businesses. I haven’t [...]

We woke up late on Thursday morning, a little unsure our bus would arrive in Banphe early enough to catch the ferry (really just a small boat) to the island of Koh Samet. “What the heck,” we, the bold travellers said to each other. We boarded the public bus expecting difficutly with language, etc. If [...]

We’re back in Bangkok after another bus ride across the “dancing road” from Cambodia. Tina and I just had a wonderful Shrimp Wun Ton soup and some drinks and headed to a web cafe. We’ve got to figure out where we want to stay tomorrow when we get to the island of Koh Samet, which [...]

Well we went for the sunset, but just after we climbed a steep path, and then almost-vertical-temple-stairs to get a beautiful view….. the rain came pouring down. It’s not just lots of rain, it’s big fat rain. At least it’s warm. Within minutes we were soaked to the bone, and most tourists were heading for [...]