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Golden Week Adventures in Thailand-Part I, Koh Lanta
Blog: Thiessen Twosome Does Japan - 12 May 2011
For our last Golden Week vacation here in Japan, Jacob and I decided to head back to Thailand for a relaxing getaway on the beaches during low-season. We were long over-due for some quality time together since our job schedules don't always permit it.First stop, the island of Koh Lanta in the Andaman Sea (next to its more famous cousin, Koh Phi Phi), and our cute little bungalow:
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Time for a Time Out!
Blog: Twenty-Something Travel - 16 January 2011
The past couple months have been kind of rough. From the rain in Australia to traffic tickets in Phuket, to yet MORE rain in Ko Phi Phi, I have been nurturing the suspicion that maybe I’ve picked up some kind of rare gypsy travelling curse. After all, the only common denominator in all my bad [...]
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Thailand, Place of Poop and Jasmine
Blog: Uncommontravel - 16 January 2010
Here’s what I told my daughter about Thailand. It smells of jasmine, I said. Dreamily. Mom, she said, three months later when we met at her uncle’s expat compound in Bangkok, “It smells of poop”. Thailand: poop and jasmine. It took awhile to process that. I’m embarrassed at how long it took. Then I got it. She was young and backpacking on a budget a tiny almost imperceptible percentage of ours.
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