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First day of our pet- and house sit in Doi Saket
This is the day Heike is leaving for Germany for her three week holiday. A friend is picking her up at 12:30 to drive her to the airport. She asks us to leave at noon, with the dogs, to have lunch at Phoo Na. She fears her leaving will upset the dogs, and it’s certainly…
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Visiting Wat Doi Jamjong, Roong Aroon Hot Springs and the Umbrella Center
It’s been ten days since we left Europe. Ten days in which we haven’t worked. Our very first holiday since we got together (February 2017). And boy are we enjoying it! Today however, we’ve done a little bit of work. Just to get back in the game. We’ve agreed to work a maximum of 30…
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Visiting Doi Saket Temple and the Mae Kuang Dam
You’re going to think we’re out of our minds after what I wrote about our first Thai massage, but we have another appointment for a massage today at eleven. Heike called to make the arrangements, and asked that they give is the “farang” treatment. Farang is the Thai word for foreigners, and the farang treatment,…
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Visiting Doi Suthep Wat Phra That and Woo Café
Today, Inn cleans the house and looks after the dogs. Heike takes us to Chiang Mai again. First, we visit the Doi Suthep Wat Phra That. A Wat is a Thai monastery, including at least one tempel on it’s grounds. And they are everywhere. Even the smallest village has its own Wat. Depending on the…
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Thai massage, or the (not so subtle) art of torture
One of the things Thailand is famous for is the Thai massages. There’s a place here in the village of Doi Saket, and Heike calls them for us and arranges for an appointment at 1 o’clock. We take the scooter and drive there in less than ten minutes. We are met by a couple of…
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Exploring Chiang Mai
Mondays and Thursdays, a cleaning lady and two gardeners come to take care of the house and garden. They will also look after Wan and Dtaem if necessary, for the dogs are young and not used to being alone for longer than 30 minutes. So those are the days Heike is free to leave, and…
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Our first day in Doi Saket
Indeed, the dogs wake us at 6:30. Christophe congratulates me on my 50th birthday and gives me a lovely card with a beautiful and sweet text. He had already given me a gift before we left Barcelona. I had asked for a book (La Permaculture en Pratique) that’s too heavy to bring all the way…
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Visiting Bangkok’s Chatuchak Weekend Market
We wake up at 7, drift off to sleep again, and finally get up at 9. You have to give some leeway to jetlag, right? We take breakfast next door. Christophe has porridge of oats and coconut milk with banana, and I have yoghurt with muesli and loads of fruits, served in a young coconut.…
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Site seeing Bangkok; the Grand Palace and Wat Pho
As we leave the hostel to go site seeing, we immediately come across our first tempel. It’s almost literally at spitting distance from the hostel. We marvel at the beauty of it. The eye for detail with which it is decorated. And the fact that it has no window panes… The Grand Palace First on…
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Bangkok here we come!
Finally, the day has come. We wake up at 5:10h, 5 minutes before any of the three alarms go off, and get up, get dressed and finish our backpacks. We had planned to leave without jackets, since we certainly won’t need those in Asia. But it’s raining and we don’t want to risk getting soaked…
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A week in Gavà; deliveries in Spain
We flew back to Barcelona on Monday evening. The plane was delayed by almost two hours, so it was almost 10 o’clock in the evening when we arrived at the apartment in Gavà. Tuesday morning, we slept in (a bit). We had no WiFi, because the downstairs neighbour who’s WiFi we had been using, is…
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21st International Ayurveda Symposium
The day after the Ayurveda Symposium… We’re sitting on the terrace of the KIS-hotel in Bad Soden – Salmünster (Germany) as I am writing this. It’s 11 o’clock, cloudy, and 16 degrees Celsius. But it’s not really cold and the sun seems to be just on the verge of making an appearance. After 3 very…
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Pet-sitting Bella and Archie in Adeje, Tenerife
Last week, we were pet-sitting Bella and Archie in Adeje for the third time this year. Those two Jack Russel terriers are such a joy to be around! They are well behaved and full of energy. They obliged us to get out of the house at least once a day for a brisk walk of…
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Three month summary
They say time flies when you’re having fun. Well, it does… We haven’t written a single blog in over three months. Shame on us! We’ve just been very busy and traveling a lot. So let’s recap those three months, and we’ll take it from there. Tenerife We left Andalucia to go to Tenerife where we…
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Summary of our stay in Andalusia
We left the Finca this morning with a tear and a smile. A tear, because we are really sorry to be leaving. If it wasn’t for our next commitment, we would have stayed for another month. We are surely going to miss Marion and Aldo, the animals and the Finca! A smile, because we’ll be…