Nakhon Sawan

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! — 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 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….

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…

Celebrating Loi Krathong — We wrote about our first Loy Krathong last year and time has really flown by. Along with Christmas, school holidays, Wai Kru and Sports Week; Loy Krathong is a milestone in the Thai year. Traditionally it marks the official end of the rainy season but to us it also […]

Loy Krathong

What we wear... — Here in Thailand each day has a lucky colour (actually they also have an unlucky colour as well…). It’s how children learn the days of the week and many Thais will wear the colour of the day. The day you were born one will determine your lucky (and unlucky) colour. […]

The Thai Colour Code

5-a-side in Thailand — A parent of one of my students invited me to play seven a-side football with him on Monday nights, and having barely kicked a ball during our first year in Thailand I gratefully accepted his invitation. When we arrived we sat together and waited for the rest of […]

International Player

DSC_0718 (1) — After a rather long settling in period in our new town, we’ve taken up some exercise classes which have become a big part of our weekly routine. We’ve found that they are really fun and really rewarding, largely for reasons not related to exercise. Turning up to the first session […]

The Unexpected Perks of Exercise Classes