Merry Christmas!

Paul and I arrived in Mae Sot on Christmas Eve. Mae Sot is on the border with Myanmar, and is a hub for various organisations providing aid, education and medical care to Burmese and Karen refugees (the Karen are one of the various "hill tribes" that inhabit northern Thailand and Myanmar). There is a lively community of aid workers, English teachers and medical students in the town, and we were invited to spend Christmas Day with them. Instead of turkey and Christmas pudding, we were treated to sticky rice in bamboo, jackfruit and curry.