Our first full day with Peter and Lek at their wonderful home in Chang Rai. After a cold shower, (the water heater was just going in), we started the day with coffee on the veranda. Actually, this is where we have all of our meals. We’ll cover this in another future blog. Do Home They […]
A fresh reminder. This email notifies you that there is a new post. If you’d like to view the actual post on the blog, click on the “Read on blog” link as highlighted in red below. This will be the last post from Bangkok and Environs. Monday we fly to Chang Rai. The whole family, […]
Saturday My volunteered to take the girls to their various dance and piano lessons, thus freeing up Kook to play with us. She wanted to take us to Ko Kret and the Chatuchak Weekend Market. Ko Kret Ko Kret is a small island in the Chao Phraya River, just north of Bangkok. It was a […]
We decided to take public transport to go to Samyan Mitrtown mall to meet Kannika and her parents. It is located on a corner of the Chulalongkorn University campus. First we took a public bus to the MTS (Underground) stop. 10 THB (about $.30). We then got on the MTS. 60 THB ($1.76) And then… […]
Today we went on a tour of Panama City. We’ll talk about most of it in other posts. There was one place we visited, however, that would have been a huge hit with my dad. The Church of San Jose in Casco Viejo, or La Inglesia de San Jose, is one of the most prominent […]
On the way to Door County from Little Compton we decided to drive through Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I was born and raised in Sheboygan. While I was in high school, I worked as a janitor at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The job was much more than janitoring. I helped set up shows, was the […]
We were recommended to check out Vigeland Park in Oslo. So we did. It is an impressive place, filled with tourists, primarily, it seemed, from Asia. Little did we know, as we walked through the place, that Vigeland himself was something of a Nazi sympathiser and that his works are sometimes considered to “reek of […]
Those of you who knew Derek ten years ago, when he was an AFS student living with us, may be wondering about my use of the name “Dirk.” Well, in the Netherlands, “Dirk” is pronounced almost like “Derek” is in the US. Dirk took pity on us, and just went with Derek, even though he […]
The Netherlands is justifiably proud of its heritage of painters, from centuries ago up to today. We had to be selective. With Dirk’s help, we knocked it out of the park. Of all the artists of whom they are proud, Van Gogh is the rockstar around here. We went to three museums with significant Van […]
Cover Photo: Ellen posing in front of a “Trabi” or Trabant, an East German vehicle. Ellen’s Thoughts: Who Knew! Not at all what I expected! Then I am not sure what I expected.We went on a walking tour and the guide was fantastic! He was 28 years old, doing graduate school in Sociology after deciding […]
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