Pattaya 18-20.09.07

This is the first blog since I came back to Thailand. It has been boring some time just to stay home. So this time I got a chance to get away from Bangkok for few days when my friend whom I met in Canada came from the UK! So we met in Pattaya! This pic is a view of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
The bus took us about 2.5 hours from Bangkok to Pattaya.
I spent my second day on the beach.
My foot prints :)
Jomtian Beach is famous for swimming in Pattaya.
The waves were big and the water came so high.
Relaxing at the beach.
It was hot and sunny.

Celebrating last night in Pattaya. We had little party at home and went out clubbing til morning :)

New York 13-16.07.07 Day I & II

New York City: Day I and II Our first meal in NYC @ McDonald
Grocery shopping; our breakfast
My travel gang; Esther (France), Carmen (Paraguay), Michel (Switzerland) and me

Our 2nd day in the big apple city. We go on a walking tour which is said to last 15 hours...but...
We check out cool supermarket in Brooklyn
View from Brooklyn Promenade with Lower Manhattan background
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge
And that is Manhattan!

Ground Zero
Wall Street
Stock market
Lady Liberty
On a ferry to Staten Island

Battery Park
Our lunch + dinner at Chinese restuarant in Chinatown
Grand Central station
Rockefeller Center
Me and Frederik at Time Square

We finish our walking tour at around 1.30 in the morning. This tour lasted 17 hours!!! We walked almost nonstop. We stopped for about 1.5 hours for dinner and icecream! Brooklyn and Manhattan, we rock you!

New York 13-16.07.07 Day III

New York City: Day III

After 17 hours marathon in Brooklyn and Manhattan yesterday, today we feel like taking it easy.
We start with some shopping in Chinatown.
Then we head to Little Italy for lunch.

My Lasagna
Then we head to 5th Ave to the Empire State Building.
Here we r...we rock the Empire State building!

My travel mates

Nothing can stop a shopaholic like me from checking out the world's largest store "Macy's"
Catching subway back to the hostel at Penn Station.

We go to Central Park for the last evening in NY

We walk to Warner's Building.
Carmen, Morten, Mark and I decide to go to Vietnamese restaurant for dinner
We end our night at two local pubs.

Year end conference -- Free day 23.07.07

We went to a park in Waterloo and did some shopping in the afternoon on our free day.

Start with German monkeys - Jakob and Rudolf
Beer or wine???
Enjoying my hot chocolate ^^

We take a break from packing for some photo

Ready to go!
Me and Juan
WIth my brother, Arsanous
Ivep baby-- Canadian coordinator, Isabella's son
Me in the park