FRESH COLOURS OF LHOM SAK FRESH MARKET | PETCHABUN, THAILAND

This was the start of our Rosa’s Road Trip.  

Our road trip van came to a stop.  I woke up and realised we had arrived at Lhom Sak Fresh Market in Petchabun province, Thailand.

The sun had just risen, but the market had been awake for a few hours already.

First there was a light whiff of typical fresh market odour mixed with the smell of exhaust fumes from delivery motor bikes.

A few more steps forward and we were greeted by the scent of greens and spices.

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LA CHAMPAGNY WAS A CHALLENGE

To ski, or not to ski.  That is the question.

I got an invitation from good family friends to join them on their ski trip in France back in April 2014.

I am a boarder.  Snowboarding is hands down my most favourite sport.  Back in the days when I was finishing my high school in Vancouver, I would go up to Cypress mountain every other week or so and board until the mountain closed.  After leaving Canada in 2004, I never got the chance to go snowboarding, but I every single day I daydreamed of riding fresh powder.

Then the invitation came.  Saiphin and Alex are my very good friends despite the almost-20-year age difference.  They and their friends take their children on a road trip to France every year to ski, and that year they planned to go to La Champagny or Champagny En Vanoise.

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