If you find yourself in Bangkok and need to go on a run, don’t worry, there is an alternative to hitting the impossibly congested, polluted—not to mention dangerous—streets and sidewalks, or jogging in a fume-infested parking garage as I saw some of my condo neighbors do. [Read more…]
It’s actually quite easy (and usually cheap) to get around Bangkok. There are so many choices [Read more…]
After more than 25 hours of travel from San Francisco, my family and I arrive in Bangkok, thrilled to be starting the next phase of our world trip: Southeast Asia! [Read more…]
During our two-month stay in Thailand in 2013, we knew we had to chill somewhere for more than a couple of weeks. So we spent three weeks on a quiet, peaceful beach in Koh Samui, letting our two kids run wild in front of our bungalow. We lucked out! We rented a great place from airbnb.com.
The water in front was calm and shallow, so we would wake in the morning, eat out on the deck, and let the kids splash around until it was time for that day’s adventures.
Ummmm… yummy… of course, eating dried crickets and worms is easy for Lily, who’s two years old and doesn’t have any pre-conceived ideas about eating bugs. She LOVES them, and asks for more. I asked my husband, Pierre, how they taste (ah-hmmm, I was the only family member unwilling to overlook my preconceptions and eat them). He said, “Crunchy, with soy sauce.” Here is Lily and Pierre, eating grasshoppers on the popular, touristy Khao San Road in Bangkok, a lively place to be–bugs or no bugs!
