Our Thai Life

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After living in a shoe box for our first 20 months in Thailand, we were more than ready to move. There are several nice apartment complexes around town but we wanted more space. I wanted to be able to teach classes at home, we wanted to have a kitchen and […]

Here in Nakhon Sawan : House Tour!

Chinese New Year in Nakhon Sawan
  Nakhon Sawan is not a spectacular town. There are no beaches nor mountains. No skyscrapers or wild nightlife. It’s a quiet town full of great food and friendly faces and that’s  what we love about it.   Once a year, however, the town transforms of Chinese New Year. Nakhon […]

Chinese New Year

French Toast Three Ways! 1
    I can vividly remember the first time I had french toast. We were in the disgusting kitchen of my miserable second year student house and we were following a YouTube tutorial on how to make ‘egg bread’.    It wasn’t the best or most glamorous eggy bread I’ve had […]

French Toast 4 ways

Best of 2016 2
If you’re on Instagram, you’ll probably be familiar with the #bestnine hashtag. An app finds your top photos from the past year based on number of likes and puts them into a collage. It’s a fun way to look back at the year. I’ve stolen this idea and made a […]

Our #bestnine of 2016

Best of 2016
  I’ve never been a huge fan of New Year Eve – too much pressure and expectation. You need to have a plan way in advance, you MUST  be doing something. Everthing is booked up and SO  expensive!   But this year we went away to the beach with friends […]

New Year on Koh Mak

Best Food in Town!
Our favourite food in town is found in a busy, brightly light restaurant furnished with tin tables and a distinct lack of walls. If you’ve ever visited us, you’ve almost definitely eaten here at least one.   It doesn’t look fancy but it’s well known in Nakhon Sawan for it’s […]

Here in Nakhon Sawan: What we eat….

A trip to the top of Thailand
  Because Thailand has a wonderful amount of national holidays, we recently enjoyed a five day weekend. I’m not really sure you can still call it a weekend when you only work for two days of the week but whatever it was, it was much appreciated.   We wanted to […]

A trip to the top of Thailand

Trying to Thai dance...
Nearly a year ago now, our school’s Director retired. There was to be a big party to say goodbye and we, the foreign teachers, were asked to perform a dance. Normally we refuse these things to avoid embarrassing ourselves but we are big fans of this guy so we agreed.   […]

When we tried to Thai dance!

What we ate in Chiang Mai...
We love Thai food and eat it every day. When we came back from six weeks in India, all I wanted was a Yam Khai Dao with plenty of lime and chilli. But living somewhere where the variety of international cuisines is pretty limited, we find ourselves craving our westerns favourites […]

What we ate in Chiang Mai

Party games!
  It’s Friday night and my sister is here to stay so naturally we take her to a fancy-dress party where we will be the only foreigners in the room.   We sold it to her as a ‘cultural experience’ and I’m pretty sure it was!   Because Thai parties […]

A Thai costume party…

2016 1
Looking back at my blog post from last new year I realised that this is the first year that I have got anywhere near keeping my resolutions. Granted I haven’t quite made it. And I’ve never really made real resolutions other than a vague notion that I should lose weight, get […]

Results and Resolutions