Home sweet home

This is the house we are currently renting. It has 3 bedrooms, and a huge living room which is double ceiling height. We are enjoying it, but we are missing our shipment which hasn't arrived from Scotland yet, but might arrive at the end of this week (keeping our fingers and toes crossed!).

Aqui esta a nossa casinha! Tem 3 quartos e uma sala de estar enorme. O quarto principal e a unica divisao no segundo andar. Estamos a gostar muito da casa, mas faz-nos muita falta o carregamento que mandamos vir da Escocia e que ainda nao chegou. E capaz de chegar no final desta semana!!! Iupi!!!











And of course we have already bought a high-definition TV and a playstation 3 because Ed just couldn't live them!!! Here he is looking all happy!

E claro que nao poderiamos passar sem uma TV de alta definicao e uma playstation 3. Quem conhece o Eduardo sabe que ele nao conseguiria sobreviver sem elas ;-) Aqui esta ele com as novas posses!





Beijokas para todos! Vao fazendo comentarios no blog, ok?

More photos!

Here are some more photos.

Aqui vao mais fotografias.

This is the front building of our school - St. Andrews International School, Rayong.

Este e o edificio principal da nossa escola - Escola Internacional de St. Andrews, Rayong.

This is some of the fruit we can buy here - papaya, dragon fruit (the pink one!), small bananas, fresh coconuts and pomelo (like a great giant orange inside!).

Estas sao algumas frutas que e possivel comprar aqui - papaya, dragon fruit, bananas pequenas, cocos frescos e pomelo (parece uma laranja gigante por dentro!).

This is Buddha mountain. The buddha is actually made from real gold! There has to be a guard there all the time to make sure no one steals it!!!

Esta e a Buddha Mountain (montanha do Buda). O buda e feito de ouro! Tem de haver um guarda constantemente a porta para prevenir roubos...

And this is one of the local buses!!! I said before you really have to see it to believe it! Anyone care to go for a ride on a Thai bus??? And the driving here is just crazy! It is like swimming in a sea of motorbikes.

E este e um dos autocarros locais!!! Alguem quer vir andar de autocarro na Tailandia??? A conducao aqui e de malucos tambem - e como nadar num mar de motas!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Bom fim de semana!

Photos

Here are our first photos... We haven't taken photographs of everything yet, so I will post some things here and there!

Aqui estao as nossa primeiras fotografias!

This is in Bangkok. We stayed at a hotel which was just next to the river. The photo on the right is the view from our hotel in Bangkok. Great, isn't it??? And the photo on the left is the view from the 'mini-port' next to the hotel. We also had a cruise on the river and we visited a temple (wat) during the cruise. We had arrived in Thailand the day before and we felt slighty jetlagged but it was great! At this point we hadn't visited our school or been to the town where we now live (Ban Chang - meaning 'house of elephants').














As fotos de cima foram tiradas em Bangkok a chegada. Ficamos num hotel que e localizado a beira rio. A foto da direita mostra a vista que tinhamos do nosso quarto de hotel. Fantastica, nao e? E a foto da esquerda mostra o 'mini-porto' que havia a frente do hotel. Dai partimos para um cruzeiro de 3 horas no rio e fomos visitar um templo (wat) durante o cruzeiro. So tinhamos chegado a Tailandia no dia anterior e sentiamo-nos um pouco jetlagged, mas foi tudo optimo! Ainda nao tinhamos visitado a nossa escola, nem a aldeia onde vivemos agora, Ban Chang (que significa 'Casa de Elefantes').


Mmm... coconut water!!! You can buy a coconut at the supermarket for about 20 cents of a euro (more or less 15 pence)!!!

Mmm... agua de coco!!! Aqui pode-se comprar um coco fresco no supermercado por 20 centimos!!! Uau!
















These are some of the other new hires at the school (Owen, Kim and Martin). We went out for dinner in Ban Chang and ate lots of (very!!!!) spicy food!!! Yikes!


Estes sao outros professores novos da nossa escola (o Owen, a Kim e o Martin). Fomos jantar em Ban Chang e comemos comida muito picante!!! Ui!!!





This is us enjoying a Saturday on the beach. The water is warm and the weather has been fantastic so far, although sometimes quite scary when there is a tropical thunderstorm. You wouldn't believe the thunder!!!

Aqui estamos nos a aproveitar um Sabado na praia. A agua do mar e quente e o tempo tem estado fantastico ate agora, se bem que de vez em quando ha tempestades tropicais com muita trovoada e muitos relampagos!



More photos coming up soon! Keep well!!! ;-)

Mais fotos a caminho em breve!

It begins! Comecou!

Sawasdee Ka!!!

I can't believe we have arrived a month ago!!! Everything is going very well, but we have only managed to get internet at home yesterday and that is why this blog is only starting today! We will post photos soon (maybe tomorrow!) and lots of news about our new life in Thailand. You really have to see it to believe it!
Beijinhos everyone!

Nao acredito que ja passou um mes desde que chegamos a Tailandia! Esta tudo a correr muito bem, mas so conseguimos ter internet em casa desde ontem, e portanto so estou a comecar este website agora. Vamos publicar fotos em breve (talvez amanha!) e muitas noticias acerca da nossa nova vida na Tailandia.
Beijinhos para todos!