Buddhism

Monday the 12th of August is the Thailand national mothers day holiday so I took our girls out to lunch.

It's the Buddhist Lent holiday so we take a drive west of the big smoke to a Temple with a unique effigy.

One of the positives of the Songkran holidays is that the roads in Bangkok are free of traffic jams because most people leave the city to visit family in rural areas. I am certainly not complaining, but as it’s a holiday, I’m also taking the day off as the designated chauffeur! We first make our way out to Wat Wat …

We start today’s adventure visiting the Wat Tam Mai temple to look for a gift for our friend Min. Chanya also wanted to make merit for good luck as well as this is a tradition under Buddhist philosophy. Alas, she didn’t find the perfect gift there, so we stop off at a small shop on the way to Min’s new …

We wake up on New Years day to a foggy 20 degrees Celsius and take a stroll down to Mon Bridge