We spent the second half of our UK visit in Wales 🏴 at Hugh's Mum's farm doing lots of farm jobs and walks (and drinking and eating obviously). We cleared a whole field of brambles, painted the neighbours wall, fed the farm animals, and saved a drowning chicken (I'm hair drying it in the last photo). It was great to do some manual labor and move my body again after laptop-ing so much recently! We joked that she could totally run retreats for for burned out tech people to get off their screens 😂.
We managed to squeeze in two BBQ's in a week and even had a night at the fire pit. We also had our first Welsh Rarebit, which sounds quite exotic but it's basically just fancy cheese on toast, absolutely delicious, but still just cheese on toast (sorry Wales!).
- Danielle
Jim said:You forgot Welsh Cakes! 😋
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Raz said:Has Hugh patented his painting method yet?
Jim:we came up with a better solution where I pulled him along by his legs
Colin said:Welcome back. Another heatwave! And Wales is fab!
Alina said:did the chick give 5/5 for Hugh’s service?
Rachael (Hugh’s Mum!) said:Loved having you here at Flying Pig Lets!🐷Thank you for all your help especially chick rescue!
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— Stratford-upon-Avon + Kent
Our first 2 weeks in the UK started out wearing jumpers and coats, and then it turned into a record breaking heat wave - typical English weather then! It was actually hotter in England than Bangkok for a few days 🥵. I guess we should be grateful that it wasn't raining (since we usually bring terrible weather with us) but we were staying in a hotel without AC where the windows didn't open.
Anyway, we survived the heatwave and managed to fit in lots of English things. We made use of the jetlag 5am wake up calls to almost catch the sunrise on the hills, smashed a massive baked potato (with beans and cheese and tuna for me, it's delicious trust me!), watched the first England World Cup match in the pub, wandered along the canals, did some gardening in James' Mum's allotment, and visited Warwick Castle!
Then we drove to Kent to see James' Dad and took him out for Sunday lunch for Father's day and then spend the weekend wandering around the cute village sampling the different pubs and picked up some Kent wine (yes they make wine in the UK now!) and drove all the way back!
- Danielle
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— Bangkok + Bali
Since leaving Okinawa we've spent a week in Bangkok and a month in Bali, and these are basically all the photos I took! I've been to both places so many times there's not much new to document but it's also pretty nice to jump straight into somewhere we know really well.
We went to Bali to hang out with friends, play badminton, and do lots of co-working sessions. It was awesome to see old friends and make some new ones too. Bali isn't somewhere I'd settle down but I like visiting for a month every year to catch up with the gang 🫶. It's also where the original Hackagu (our Thursday co-working session) was born and is still the best node to chat with cool smart people.
We're off to the UK now for the first time in 2 years!! Got some cool stuff planned so I'm looking forward to it - starting with a trip to Marks and Spencer for some proper Cornish Cruncher cheese 🧀😁.
Then we'll be in Europe for the rest of the year but no plans where yet!
- Danielle
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— Okinawa
So we flew from Korea to Okinawa basically because it was near by, and ended up absolutely loving it! 💃
It's a laid back part of Japan with chill island vibes. We thought it might be a bit American and although you can see the influence with big roads by the beach there's loads of domestic tourism so thankfully everything is still super Japanese 😂
We stayed in 2 different districts and enjoyed some slow work days and a lot of walks down the beach that ended up with a beer at the food truck there 😁
We didn't do anything particularly touristy. As usual it was mostly just eating and drinking and boy did we have some good food. The sushi on the island is out of this world! Definitely the best sushi I've ever had!
There's also diving here but we had our winter jumpers with us instead of our dive gear and the water is a bit cold we'll come back and dive here next time!
Jim said: You forgot Welsh Cakes! 😋
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