Category: Thailand

Homemade food: salmon, banana-squash loaf, dinosaur cookies and chicken soup & stock

I’ve had an extremely busy Sunday last weekend cooking and baking up a deli­cious homemade storm.  Since coming back to Canada I have felt the need and want to create won­der­ful things for Chris and I to eat. The worlds cuisine has inspired and reminded me about how import­ant food is. Before we left too [...]

Lost in Translation

The Thai island life

I’m sorting through some of the pho­to­graphs I’m car­ry­ing around on my laptop from seven months on the road, and I real­ized there are a bunch of shots from the Thai islands that I haven’t put up here yet. So here are a few. Enjoy!

What’s a Wat?

While vis­it­ing Chiang Mai, Thailand Chris and I strolled around the city vis­it­ing a few of the wats. You might be asking your­self, “What’s a wat?” According to  Wikipedia: “A wat (derived from the Sanskrit word वात Vattaka) is a mon­as­tery temple in Cambodia, Thailand, or Laos. Strictly speak­ing a wat is a Buddhist sacred pre­cinct with monks’ [...]

Scuba diving at Ko Phi Phi Ley island in Thailand

I was filled with anti­cip­a­tion for our two dives at Ko Phi Phi Ley because they were our first dives that were not part of our scuba train­ing and also our first dives not in the waters around the Thai island of Ko Tao. The atmo­sphere was com­pletely dif­fer­ent from Ban’s Diving School. It was relaxed [...]