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Hanna (34) worked as a personal advisor helping young people in and around Cornwall for the past 10 years and is looking forward to spending 24/7 with Tehya for the next year. What more could a mummy wish for.

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Rach MacDermot visits Hua Hin

My friend Rach has been travelling for the last five months – she has been as far as the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia – where she spent time researching her families history in the hill stations of Tai Ping.
We had kept in touch with the occasional email while we have both been [...]

17Feb2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Wedding Anniversary 04/02/09

Today we celebrated our first wedding anniversary.
We are not the kind of couple who put a lot of effort into these kind of anniversary dates!! We don’t celebrate valentines day and our original anniversary – our first date we celebrate on the 1st April (conveniently April fools day – which is something that makes us [...]

4Feb2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Thai Christmas 2008/2551

It was so great to get back to our little house in Royal Home Village. We had one full day to de stress, relax and recover from the journey back from Malaysia then Tehya started school on the 23rd December. They celebrate Christmas in Hua Hin but not in the same way we do in [...]

26Dec2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Visa run – the story!!

We bought our train tickets a few days before we were due to leave Hua Hin for Malaysia but we hesitated getting a return ticket because we were not a 100% sure how long the trip/ visa process was going to take us.
Jon gave us a lift to the train station to catch the 18.24 [...]

22Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Hua Hin – Change of plans and house search!

We got back to Hua Hin with a feeling of cheery familiarity – we were not able to go straight to Jon’s house as we had planned, he still had another guest staying. Jon came and picked us up from the bus station and took us to a local guest house, dropped us off to [...]

14Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Bangkok – Laptops and Barricades

We spent four nights in Bangkok – two at the Green Hotel and two back at the Villa Cha Cha.
The two nights at the Green Hotel were pleasant enough, the hotel rooms were very basic (a little prison cell like) but clean – the restaurant downstairs did pretty good food (mix of Thai, Israeli and [...]

2Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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West Coast Journey – Ranong to Bangkok!

We booked our tickets off the island through a local agent, realising they would be a little more expensive but we wanted to ensure that we had our tickets in advance – not wanting to get stranded any where late at night with Tehya.
The boat off the island is a flat rate of 150 Baht [...]

28Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Koh Phayam – West Coast Thailand

I first heard about Koh Phayam from Bee – my dads (Hilary) sister. Bee visited Koh Phayam several Christmases ago with my cousin Ned. The story went:-  that Koh Phayam was one of the last tourist discoveries and was therefore much like some of the other now popular islands were 15 or 20 years ago. [...]

26Nov2008 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Ranong – The Journey

After we said goodbye to Becca the previous evening we went out for a late supper with Tehya – we were all feeling pretty despondent. After a quick meal we went back to the room to encourage Tehya into bed…. it always takes a while to settle her now (the evening before we travel). She [...]

19Nov2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Patong Beach – Phuket – Thailand

We had originally planned on getting to Phuket on the 14th of November. Oonagh’s flight to Bangkok was on the 16th and Becca’s was on the 18th. That would have given us two nights to sample Patongs notorious night life before the girls started to make their departures from Thailand to Australia.
As it was we [...]

18Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Phi Phi town – Thailand!

Gavin and Becca got a long tail boat to the main part of Phi Phi town and did another quick search for accommodation. We had decided to split up – Oonagh and I stayed to complete packing and look after Tehya as the constant search for accommodation was starting to make Tehya unhappy and clingy. [...]

12Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Koh Phi Phi Don – Thailand

How angry do you get with yourself when you repeat a mistake that you have made before and should have supposedly learnt your lesson from….? This is an important question and one I asked myself several times that day….! We arrived on Phi Phi at about 10.30 am after an easy journey that was tainted [...]

5Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Bangkok to who knows where – Islands revisited!!!

The five of us spent our second day at the Villa Cha Cha trying to decide where to go next in Thailand – our initial idea had been to go to an Island off the west coast called Koh Phayam. We had little information about it and most of what we had read said that [...]

4Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Robyn and Taylor – Thank you to our Australian friends!!

Around the same time as losing our laptop to the Mac service repair -  we logged into our blog account to see that our good friends Robyn and Taylor had very kindly donated 50 Aussie dollars!! We were really surprised and touched by your kindness – thanks guys!!
For those of you that have not read [...]

1Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Halloween on the Khao San Rd

Our first night at the new hotel proved to be pretty bizarre as it was October the 31st and Halloween night. Oonagh stayed at the hotel and slept as she was so exhausted after her journey to see us – a late night drinking beer and then no sleep as the other hotel was so [...]

31Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Bangkok – staying near the Khao San Rd

We left the Howard Square Hotel in two taxi’s as between us we had so much luggage we almost needed a bus!! It took about 15 minutes to get two taxis organised that would agree to take us the 30 minute journey to the Khao San area. Taxi drivers in Bangkok seem to have a [...]

31Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Bangkok Thailand – collecting Tehya’s aunties

Jon took us to the bus station in Hua Hin, we booked ourselves on to a 12 seater air-con mini bus for 200 Baht each (Tehya was free) – with the exchange rate it cost us about £3.30 – it is very handy as they run every half hour or so. It took two and a [...]

30Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Visiting uncle Jon – Hua Hin Thailand

Tehya was really upset on the day we arrived – as we sat at the train station waiting for Jon to collect us all she kept saying was ‘where is he – when is Jon coming?’
{w:600;h:350} Hua Hin, train station
(map of Hua Hin train station, East coast of Thailand)
We gave up waiting and Gavin arranged [...]

27Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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2nd Class train to Thailand

When we first departed from our friend Jon’s house in Hua Hin Thailand heading to Sungai Kolok and the Malay boarder we travelled first class – which is not the first class you would get in the UK but it does at least mean that you have your own private space with a lockable door. [...]

24Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Penang – Malaysia return journey!

Nothing about Star Lodge on Jl Lebuh Muntri had changed in the five months we have been away. The old Chinese men who work there at the front desk were as delightfully eccentric and as charmed by Tehya as they had been on our last visit. Always laughing and watching her with bright eyed amusement [...]

19Oct2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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