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[ Wednesday, June 14, 2006 ]

Honeymoon photo-log
Starbuck [18:00] Comments: 2 []
 
Ang Thong National Marine Park It took over a year, but the photos from our honeymoon are now available in a nice Flickr Set where they can be enjoyed in all their glory - blown up large, spread out across a flashy slideshow, whatever takes your fancy.

Just to whet your whistle, I've reproduced them here in Thumbnailovision. Click on a photo to zoom to it's page on Flickr.

You'll note that some of the thumbnails on VSX are smaller in size - these are the ones that have been locked as "Private" within Flickr. To view these you'll need to be logged in as one of my Flickr Contacts (there's a free and easy sign-up for Flickr; to gain access to the secrets held therein just throw me a request via the site). Sorry about the netparanoia - not only am I trying to shield my network identity from passing Timecops, but I'm also much too much of an ugly bugger for my picture to be broadcast on the raw interweb...

I might treat you to some further textual descriptions of our Holiday Of A Lifetime at a later date. Or a later decade. But in the meantime there's varying levels of description on each individual photo page.

In brief: Our holiday started with a stay in Bangkok, staying at the Landmark - a "luxurious 5 star hotel on fashionable Sukhumvit Road, in the heart of Thailand's exciting capital, and handily positioned for the Skytrain monorail"...
Bangkok skyline Bangkok skyline Bangkok skyline Bangkok skyline Pool with a view Sitting by the pool, half-way up the skyscraper View from the deckchair Smile! The armpit photograph! Indoor Palm More Palmistry Bangkok girls! Rambutan Seller Flower Seller Floating Market Rush hour Fruit seller Mind the wake! Gaining speed Cross-canal Spirit house Lost Waterside residence Overtaking! Port, not Starboard Hotdogging Bond-like Speed 2 Metalhead Mechanical monstrosity From car to Giger Thai or Chinese? A piece of China in Thailand Teak carving details Teak carving Please buy... Within the Grand Palace grounds Frontage of the The Chakri-Mahaprasad Hall Changing the Guard Chakri-Mahaprasad Grand Palace View from the Chao Phraya Offerings Blessings Prayer Lone Buddhist monk Temple of the Emerald Buddha Wat Phra Kaew Golden towers Temple Guardian Temple Guardians Grand Palace Panorama The Library The Grandest Spirit House Of Them All Grand Palace, Bangkok Harmonique Happiness is two glasses of Chang!


We then flew on to Ko Samui, where we stayed in one of the converted rice barges at the marvellous Imperial Boathouse Hotel...

Samui Airport Arrivals First time on the beach! Storm on the Horizon Monsoon brewing in the distance Skeletal wood Choeng Mon restaurants Fishing boat View from the Boathouse The Boathouse Pool The new wife admiring her curry Coconut, curry and Chang Beachside Boat Pool by night Boat inversed View from the beach Cannon and Ball Room with a perfect view View from our deck View across the pool across the sea Man versus cannon The watchtower Relaxing by the cannon with a good book Grounded rice barge... Barge to the side Get off my boat... "She's the King (Queen) of the World" Sideways view across our deck The Fly! Stairway out The living room The lounge area The bedroom The bathroom Low view Imperial Boathouse breakfast room... View from the road Without walls Reception Lazing by the Boat Pool... Breakfast grin Garden Pool 4 Garden Pool 3 Garden Pool 2 Garden Pool 1 Garden Pool 5 "We wanna be togetha!" Spiderman versus the Green Goblin Garden Pool 6 Garden Pool 6 Tropical fountain Approaching the fountain Boathouse garden Pina Colada Girl Beer Boy A quick rest for sundown And then back to the bar... Elvis Thai dancers 3 Thai dancers 2 Thai dancers 1 Thai dancer Too much to drink... View from the Captain's Table Boat Pool by Night Fountain By Night Night Monkeys Garden Pool by Night Drunken Nightime Beach Haze 3 Drunken Nightime Beach Haze 2 Drunken Nightime Beach Haze 1 Wet tootsies Proxy Pet Beach Restuarant 2 Beach Restaurant Mind the sunburn! Pool or restaurant Choeng Mon 1 Choeng Mon 4 Choeng Mon 3 Choeng Mon 2 Choeng Mon 5 Choeng Mon 6 Girl on stilts Grey Bag Man Fashion Icon Bathing Beauty Clinging On Jetski Bond-like Bondalike Distant View of Wife 3 Distant View of Wife 2 Distant View of Wife 1 Three Boats High tide on Choeng Mon Jeepers! Rooty Jungle Explorer Indiana Jones... Monkey see Monkey do 12 monkeys over 3 Spot the Monkey competition Bearing the load Approaching the launchpad Mother and child View from a Mother Elephant 2 View from a Mother Elephant 1 Clinging on for dear life... View from a Mother Elephant 3 Elephant trekking side Elephant trekking front Three smilers The Man With The Golden Banana Feeding Time The Emperor Dalek Tong Yang beach Tong Yang beach 2 Distant marine park Tong Yang beach 4 Tong Yang beach 3 Bophut Beach 3 Bophut Beach 2 Bophut Beach 1 Boats at Bophut Happy Elephant Big Buddha statue across Bophut Bay Yachts against Koh Phan Ngan backdrop Dusk at Bophut Bay Open Side Bus journey Imperial Samui Hotel - lower pool 2 Imperial Samui Hotel - lower pool Getting athletic Imperial Samui Hotel 6 Imperial Samui Hotel 5 Imperial Samui Hotel 4 Imperial Samui Hotel 3 Imperial Samui Hotel 2 Imperial Samui Hotel 1 Jungle golf! I hate theseones! Watch the birdie! Down the snake-hole! Where did you get that hat? Mind the bumps Setting Sail from Samui Thai Fishing Boat Sheltering from the breeze... All aboard! Thai prow Island Hopper Approaching Ang Thong National Marine Park 3 Approaching Ang Thong National Marine Park 2 Approaching Ang Thong National Marine Park 1 Fishing Boat off Ang Thong 3 Fishing Boat off Ang Thong 2 Fishing Boat off Ang Thong 1 Swept Away Distant Beach 4 Distant Beach 3 Distant Beach 2 Distant Beach 1 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 9 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 8 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 7 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 6 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 5 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 4 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 3 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 2 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 1 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 19 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 18 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 17 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 16 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 15 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 14 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 13 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 12 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 11 Ang Thong - amongst the islands 10 Ang Thong National Marine Park - amongst the islands 21 Ang Thong National Marine Park - Amongst the islands 22 Ang Thong National Marine Park - Amongst the islands 23 Ang Thong National Marine Park - Amongst the islands 24 Ang Thong National Marine Park - Amongst the islands 25 Ang Thong National Marine Park - amongst the islands 26 Ang Thong National Marine Park - amongst the islands 27 Scaramanga Cruising Through NiceWife Hulk Powersurge Ang Thong from Mae Koh 1 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 2 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 3 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 4 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 5 Emerald Lake - description Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 1 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 2 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 3 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 4 On the hippy trail... Extreme Close-up! Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 5 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 6 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 7 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 8 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 9 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 10 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 11 Emerald Lake - top viewpoint 12 Breath taken away, and taking a breather Ang Thong from Mae Koh 6 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 7 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 8 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 9 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 10 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 11 Ang Thong from Mae Koh 12 What a viewpoint! Descending to the Emerald Lake 1 Descending to the Emerald Lake 2 Descending to the Emerald Lake 3 The Source The Emerald Lake - water's edge 1 The Emerald Lake - water's edge 2 The Emerald Lake - water's edge 3 The Emerald Lake - water's edge 4 Blimey, look at the state of these two! Escape from the heat Cooling Down Boat Beach at Ko Wua Talap 1 Beach at Ko Wua Talap 2 Ko Wua Talap Beach at Ko Wua Talap 3 View from the Beach at Ko Wua Talap Ang Thong HQ 12 Langur Monkeys Langurs over Water Cartload of Langurs Baby Langur Monkey The tribe project their trajectory... The Troop Departs Mid viewpoint on Ko Wua Talap Departing Ang Thong 1 Departing Ang Thong 2 Goodbyslands Departing Ang Thong 3 Departing Ang Thong 4 Departing Ang Thong 5 Homeward bound Return to Nathon Samui Airport Departures Samui Airport Arrivals Bus to Plane

It's been wonderful reliving our honeymoon via these photos, so thank you for the opportunity (I'm talking to Tim Berners-Lee here...)


2 Comment(s):


Comment by Blogger birdychirp, at June 16, 2006 7:45 pm  :

what did your dial up users do to upset you....

Beeyoutiful photos - looks amazing. Was it your first time in Thailand?



Comment by Blogger Starbuck, at June 17, 2006 10:08 am  :

Pah! Dial-up shmial-up! I did briefly think of those unfortunate to be still on narrow-band, and then I thought sod it, if even I have finally dragged myself into the 21st Century, maybe this'll give them a little prod... ;-)

But yes, thanks for the nice comment.

It was indeed our first time in Thailand, and hopefully not the last... had an amazing time out there. I know its the cliché, but everyone was so friendly (and they had a real sense of "Buddhist peace" and contentedness, the food was utterly fantastic, and the sights extroardinary...


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