Interesting people we have met..
One of the great things about travelling is that you meet some fascinating people – usually other travellers.
So far we have met Irene & Daniel – a French couple from Bordeaux – when we were at Krabi. Their son is a pilot for Air France so every few months they get to go off on some sort of trip. Luckily for us, Daniel is a physiotherapist and as Paul had done something to his shoulder on the first day of our trip, it was perfect timing when he very quickly adjusted Paul and the next day he was fine! We hope we’ll meet again when we’re in France.
When we went to the Lake House in Khao Sok, we met Sven & Susi – also fascinating. They have to have the best jobs in the world. They work for a German travel company who places their guides in various places in the world to help coordinate package tours etc for German travellers. Sven has been one of these guides for 10 years and Susi 5, which is how they met. They have spent the last 20 months working in the Canary Islands and return to Germany next month to get their next assignment. As a result, they speak multiple languages and have travelled all over the place.
Most recently here in Chiang Mai we had the good fortune to spark up conversation with Matt and his wife Jessica and their friends Joshua and Jennifer. These guys are from the US and are in Chiang Mai to attend a conference. They have spent the last 5 months in Mongolia where they are teaching English. They all plan to spend 2 years in Mongolia, before returning to the States.
It was incredibly interesting to hear all about what they are doing there, how they have been learning Mongolian and about the country – not the least that the temperature was -40C when they left!
We all had a few meals together and enjoyed their company immensely and hope that we’ll run into them again some day. Hopefully I will have a link to their own blogs soon which I will pass onto you.
We have only been travelling for a month, so who knows what other people will we meet along the way.
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I’m really enjoying reading about your exploits so far. Meeting people was one of the things I loved about travelling last time, I’m glad to hear that it still happens when you have children in tow. Looking forward to hearing about the elephant park, elephants are definitely on our to do list…
Hey! It was great meeting you guys too. Our blog address is http://www.detheragedaily.blogspot.com. I have been trying to cover all of our travel adventures in Thailand and China right now.
Wow, it’s great to hear about your journeys, we figure we’ll start at the beginning of your blog and catch up to ya! We were hoping it’d be a little warmer here when we got back, but alas, it’s still bitter cold. Seeing all our friends and being reminded of all we are called to do here more than warmed our hearts though!
It really made our week being able to spend time with you guys at the Rainforest in Chiang Mai. You have the sweetest kids and we just loved talking with both of you! Hey, where can I get a 15 baht fruit shake around here?
So glad we met, you never know where we’ll meet again…if not on this side, we’ll see you on the next and we’ll have forever to catch up on all the glories you saw…that is, when we have a second when we’re not totally overwhelmed with being in the Glory of glories.
Love and grace to you and your family. God bless your journeys! We’ll be followin’ ya!
Great to here from you.
Thanks for the book details.
Hope you are all keeping warm up there!
Please keep in touch.
With blessings from us all.
….Thanks guys, great to hear from you.
We have very fond memories of meeing you both.
Please keep in touch.
Love & blesings from 6outofoz!
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