Well I went the same time the monks do without eating which was difficult! very! Me and Ewan had to sleep in the main hall, and the girls in another toom in another building. We did some meditation and chanting in the evening which was really interesting. The problem is, the book they gave us to read the chants with the monks, were written in phonetics. Which sounds good. But they don't seem to realise that Thai and English phonetics are different. This made it v...

I am now sitting in an internet cafe near the temple of 'wat phikun thong', in a wierd set of what seems to be mental institute clothing... it's what we have to wear for our temple stay. The past few days we have had a fair bit of free time, which we have spent exploring sing buri town. Yesterday we learned all about buddhism and the holidays they have and their meditating techniques. Then earlier today we met some of the monks, who came over to our crib for a li...

We went to 'dan's bar' Wednesday evening to meet all the others from lemon house and twin house. Really really nice people! Dan (aka dan the man) will drive to you from his bar, leaving his wife in charge of the bar, pick you up or free and take you tithe bar, or he sends a taxi, which he pays for. This means he gets The custom of ALL the travellers! Went and stayed in lemon house, it was brilliant. We have decided as a group to move from brown house to one of th...

I am very annoyed as I just wrote this blog out, but because the internet is so slow I didn't realise my mouse was over 'log out' when I clicked, and I lost it all, so here goes again. Well it has alraedy been mad! So much stuff has happened since Bangkok that sitting here writing it down I can't remember it all! My travel buddies are: Alice - from Belgium (brilliant English... much better than my French) Ewan - from England (Who's name provides some entertai...

Hey people! I've only just heard about this, after seeing one of my friends using it in Bangkok, so I am goign to recap over the last few days as well. We arrived in Bangkok at 8:00 am on friday and it.was.BOILING! Straight away we got a sense of the humidity. The hour long taxi ride to the hotel went by in a flash. The Royal Hotel was kind of impressive. As expected it was a little run down but it had great facilities and great food! We did a bit of swimming a...