kho chang

The first official mini-vacation, due to a buddhist festivity Makha Bucha, was greeted with great joy at Accademia Italiana - especially as far as the "professors" are concerned. So much for the accademic seriosity...

The BalkanCoalition (Slovenka Lucija+Makedonka Iskra+MakedonskiAlbanac Ngadhnjim) decided to take a trip to Thailand's second biggest island, Kho Chang, which is situated going EastSouth from BKK, close to Cambodian border.

Kho Chang is a part of the Mu Ko Chang Marine National Park. Until the mid-1980s the island was totally undeveloped, but the tourism has significantly increased and consequently influenced it since then.

Nevertheless, we were really lucky with the choice of the beach - there's plenty of them along the island and we have somehow landed on a very isolated one; very few tourists, totally relaxed bungalow caretakers, cheap accomodation, great food, coconut palmtrees above our heads while lying on a whitesand beach...highly recommended! TEZAK ZIVOT...

Berlin, Berlin...

Back from Berlin we are me and Alka...
It was really nice, city is really inspiring, modern in a pleasant way. We were there during the Berlinare, so we saw three films, we were quite lucky with our picks, even saw a pretty good Slovenian production, a Macedonian film I am from Tirov Veles. We saw most of the museums, not very effectively of course, but they are really incredible, especially the Pergamon museum and the New gallery. We made two trips, to Postdam and Leipzig (with a stop in Luther's city Wittenberg), both very nice.
See some photos on my Picassa page,
http://picasaweb.google.com/sergejcuranovic/Berlin2008?authkey=39DltRpioHU

be well,
Curo and Alka.

Thalad Num Aumphawa - Floating market

Today I was lucky enough to get a day off at school; due to (thanks to) some construction works there was no electricity; a perfect occasion for a short trip to the floating markets!
There's many of them at about 100km south from BKK; I tried to pick up one that would be less touristic possible. This one is in Aumphawa, a 2 hour bus drive from Bangkok.The floating markets were once lively trading posts and still today the wooden canoes burdened with multicoloured goods are one of the most iconic images from Thailand.It's great to see how people here spend their entire life, or almost, on the boat, selling all kinds of fantastic things and preparing meals as proper restaurants! Food is delicious, goes without saying; especially rice with mango and enormous shrimps in spicy sauce. Tezak zivot.....