Carly & Dave’s World Adventure Blog

One of the things we have really wanted to do while travelling is learn to cook something from another country.  We love Thai food so we booked onto a day-long cookery course.

We weren’t really sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a great day.  They took us down to the local market (where food was so much cheaper than the usual markets!!) and showed us all of the ingredients that they use.  One unpleasant moment was when a market man grabbed a live flapping fish and began hacking it to pieces!!!!  Anyway… we went back to the little cookery house and chose 5 meals to prepare each.  There was quite a selection to choose from.  Then we went off into groups and were shown what to do.  A couple of our choices were different, so we enjoyed sampling each others’ meals when we came back.  Yum!!!  So we are now pretty impressive Thai chefs and are determined to try it out when we get back home.

That evening we went to Chiang-Mai’s night market.  It was pretty big and fun to walk around.  I was delighted to find some fantastic bright red sequined shoes for a quarter of the price of what they would be in the UK.  Yey!

Chiang-Mai is touristy, but a really nice place.  We left with mosquito bites the size of boulders (Carly for a change, about 10 of them – not Dave!), but also some pretty good memories!