A holiday that's just a holiday

It's been a long time since I had a holiday. Sure I've been away lots and, in fact, I was away in India for 2 weeks in July followed 2 days later by 10 days in Darwin the same month. However, the first was for work with a bit of tourism thrown in and the second for the Vets Hockey Championships, where we won a silver medal. Most of my other trips over the last several years have been for hockey, work, conferences or visiting family. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as they say.

My friends Jeff and Kellie have been going to various parts of Thailand for a number of years and since she is a travel agent they sometimes go to the less obvious spots. Usually their trips clash with the Vets championships but this year they were in July since the host city, Darwin, is too hot in October.

Anyway I took this opportunity to join them this year and we have a 17 day holiday planned in Bangkok and Hua Hin staying at 5 star hotels. I anticipate there will be eating, drinking, lying round the pool, shopping and sight seeing. I will be posting pics here as well since there seemed to be some interest in my Indian blog.

Interestingly, although I have technically been in Thailand 4 times, I haven't left the airport in Bangkok. On my last visit to Phuket, I transferred through there and in the early 80's I had planned a stopover on my way from Holland to Australia. Unfortunately that time, I had a gastro attack the day I was supposed to leave, flew to Paris the next day for an alternative flight and arrived in Bangkok too late to do anything but make my connecting flight.