India / with friends in Hampi

JASON TOOK SOME PHOTOGRAPHS !!!:

waiting for chai tea with Adam and Kyla in Hampi..

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climbing Monkey Mountain, with a temple on it's top and many resident monkeys on it..

the view over beautiful Hampi (with intense temperatures)

Siem Reap / settled in

We have settled in and are making local friends, attending the Angkor Photography Festival slideshows every evening, last night we also squeezed in an annually performed shadow puppet play.. The weather is hot and most days we spend around $4 on food each, although today we blew the bank with a couple of small meals that cost that much ($4) for just one meal each, sadly the offerings were tiny.. But tasty.

Happy and content.

And mostly healthy, Jason = very healthy, Birgit = chest infection with coughs.. (which made for a boring week, spent mostly in bed recovering.)

postcards from Bangkok #1 for Hitesh (23rd October 2011)

visiting the Hale village and the lighthouse

Just a very short drive (perhaps 25 minutes) from Birgit's house in Liverpool is Hale Village. A quaint small suburb which is part of Liverpool but feels quite like countryside. We forgot to take photos of the village itself but took many at the river by the lighthouse.

moments after stepping out of the car and we stood among fields.

Jason found apples floating in the river and opened one up to smell it.

small succulent type plants growing on the river beach, we

found out shortly after that you can eat these like vegetables.

We'll come and try sometime.

climbing, of course.

Sunday at the Allotments

serenading those who dig

cake time

pre-visit to the allotments

our sunday breakfast: porridge, with fruit and green tea,

plus sunshine

...

and at the Allotments:

Jason with Carla (Michael and Natascha's daughter)