I am still alive :o)
Haven't done much that is exciting enough to write about on this thing! Just been going about day to day things. Possibly the most exciting thing is I have been cooking things in my little toaster oven. I got a cooked chicken from a deli and made roasties and stuffing to go with it, and I made cookies last week. Today I am attempting to make cakes. I don't have a cake tin to make them in so I have to use Alison's yorkshire pudding tin. Hope that the cake cases are OK for use in a bigger tin than a normal cake tin otherwise I could have a disaster on my hands!
On Friday I'm going to Bangkok to meet the parents. Have a couple of nights in a swanky hotel in the city, then we're going to Kanchanaburi for a couple of days. After that it's back to Bangkok for one more day there with the parents, then after they leave I have a couple of days there to get in some shopping. Plan to find Tescos and get cake tins and a mixing bowl - who knew such objects would be so hard to find here in Vietnam! Might see some of the sights with the parents, but once they're gone I imagine time will be spent in the shopping centres and restaurants of BKK. Looking forward to some good Thai food, and there is also a great Lebanese restaurant. Am gonna check out Chinatown and see if I can find Gong Bao Ji Ding - I ate it in China and it was ace but I've not been able to find it since so hopefully I can find it there. I'm excited about all the lovely food I get to eat next week!!!
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Sunday, 6 March 2011
So yet again I'm rather lazy at actually writing on this thing! In my defence, I was doing a bunch of placement testing as well as teaching last week so was at work all day every day, but there is no excuse for the two weeks prior to that!
My pictures from Luang Prabang are here
I had a nice relaxing time there. It's a pretty small town in the middle of nowhere and as I've been there before i didn't feel like I had to rush around doing heaps of things. I did a fair bit of shopping (for a small town there are plenty of places to shop!) and ate lots of good food. Also sat in a lot of cafes in the town and by the river drinking cheap fruit shakes and had a foot massage every day! I did go to the temples in the centre of the town, and I also went to some museums - the Royal Museum and the Ethnology museum. Went to the top of the hill in the middle of town to watch the sun set one evening, and also saw lots of pretty things to buy in the night market. Managed to resist buying most of the things I wanted and I waited til the last night to do my shopping rather than buying everything on impulse which I though was rather restrained for me! I did go on the elephant/waterfall day trip again - it was the same one I did last time but it was good fun so I decided to do it again. This time I managed to climb all the way to the top of the waterfall!!! Was too lazy last time but this time I managed it and at the top you can take our shoes off and walk across the top of the waterfall. That was pretty cool! I also hired a bicycle and cycled out to some craft villages and temples outside the town. It was nice, but it was pretty hot for cycling. There was some nice scenery down by the river though. I went to a temple on the top of a hill on my back into the centre and felt rather unfit having to get off my bike and push it up the hill but I felt a bit better when I saw the locals who cycle everywhere also having to do that!! It was a nice break from Hanoi - there are no motorbike horns!!! It's a great place to go and relax, plus it was much warmer than in Hanoi so that was nice.
My pictures from Luang Prabang are here
I had a nice relaxing time there. It's a pretty small town in the middle of nowhere and as I've been there before i didn't feel like I had to rush around doing heaps of things. I did a fair bit of shopping (for a small town there are plenty of places to shop!) and ate lots of good food. Also sat in a lot of cafes in the town and by the river drinking cheap fruit shakes and had a foot massage every day! I did go to the temples in the centre of the town, and I also went to some museums - the Royal Museum and the Ethnology museum. Went to the top of the hill in the middle of town to watch the sun set one evening, and also saw lots of pretty things to buy in the night market. Managed to resist buying most of the things I wanted and I waited til the last night to do my shopping rather than buying everything on impulse which I though was rather restrained for me! I did go on the elephant/waterfall day trip again - it was the same one I did last time but it was good fun so I decided to do it again. This time I managed to climb all the way to the top of the waterfall!!! Was too lazy last time but this time I managed it and at the top you can take our shoes off and walk across the top of the waterfall. That was pretty cool! I also hired a bicycle and cycled out to some craft villages and temples outside the town. It was nice, but it was pretty hot for cycling. There was some nice scenery down by the river though. I went to a temple on the top of a hill on my back into the centre and felt rather unfit having to get off my bike and push it up the hill but I felt a bit better when I saw the locals who cycle everywhere also having to do that!! It was a nice break from Hanoi - there are no motorbike horns!!! It's a great place to go and relax, plus it was much warmer than in Hanoi so that was nice.
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