Ten days to Christmas - December 15, 2008 - Bangkok

But you would'nt know it here... We arrived last night in Bangkok and we're greeted by Uncle Vaughan and some of the local Baha'i youth. It was great to have some familiar faces pick us up and we are now settling in Nonthaburi for a few days, catching up on emails - china's internet is not the best - helping out where we can and filling up and cheap and tasty Thai food. Although its technically Thai winter here, for 3 Irish lads its nicely hot all the time but not uncomfortably so, as is the case around March to June. We're staying here for a few days, then it looks like we'll be shipped up north to a remote town called Om koi... 5 hours from Chiang Mai. Here we will live the disciplined life for a while (proabably a good thing after the last few weeks), with 5.30 am starts, activities like english teaching, cooking, cleaning, farming, painting, basically helping out the local community. It will certainly be a challenge, but I think we are happy doing some service and not just traveling aimlessly with no purpose and forgetting about our budget...as enjoyable that may be!! We dont know for sure yet but if we do head up there it could be weeks with no internet so this might be the last post for a while...lets see what happens...

Chaaaat

Boc

PS - we've got some great photos from the last few weeks, but because of the time it takes to upload them its been difficult. We'll hopefully have an album up either here or on facebook soon...stay tuned