Today I would like to offer you my top ten tips for living in Thailand. Living in Thailand like any new country can be challenging at the beginning. During my time here I have discovered many things that I wish I had known about before I actually arrived. I have recorded many of [...]
How many times have I sat in a bar and listened in on loud farangs, a couple of drinks worse for the wear, ranting on about everything that is bad about Thailand, and Thai girls in particular? More times than I care to count. Ok you, the reader, may well be one of them - [...]
Today is day nine of my holiday and myself and Wonderful Wi are now staying at our Udon Thani village home. We’ve moved on from the bright lights of Pattaya to a village where every clock, watch and mobile tell a different time, daylight and darkness mean much, much more. Two worlds apart, one spawning [...]
We had our first big assembly on Friday, a special mass was being held. All our younger primary students were lined up ready for this special occasion.
It is a very grand sight, the impressive building that houses the classrooms in the background.
The senior students had the privilege of being inside our sport hall; this is [...]
Slowly but surely the frequent rain showers and the high humidity are working their magic in my Thai garden. More plants are coming back into flower including the one pictured top right which is some sort of orchid that MTF calls a banana plant. Despite several searches I have so far been unable to [...]
Image courtesy of ABC News Australia
Thailand’s groovy Dr Death is a newspaper tag line that was first associated with Khunying Pornthrip back in early 2005 after the Indian Ocean tsunami. The rather bizarre name given to Pornthip Rojanasunant came about because she is head of Thailand’s Central Institute of Forensic Science, an independent organisation [...]
Sanpaulo Hua Hin hospital is located in the centre of Hua Hin, Thailand. It is a private hospital that I chose to use for my annual health MOT. Its the first time I have used a private hospital in Thailand for an annual check-up and I have to say that I was quite [...]
The Bangkok Post reports today that Thailand will get its first IKEA store, with the opening scheduled for October 2011. The 40,000 sq. meter store will be built at Bang Na Trat Km 9 at what will be known as the Mega Bang Na Complex.
Posts about IKEA have been consistently popular on this blog, and [...]
While roaming around the family farm in Mukdahan I ran across these mounds. I studied them for a while to see if I could figure out their purpose. One had a nice low fire under it and another had it’s fire hole buried but you could still see smoke rising from cracks in the mound, [...]
My lovely other half, Miss Noot has been doing work experience at a local hotel. The hotel is the LaiThong Hotel. It is a 5 star hotel and I have written about the buffet breakfast and lunch that we have attended on occasions.
Miss Noot started last Monday and worked from 8am until 5pm. She was [...]
Since my last cost of living review a number of things (mostly political) that effect tourism and exports have stretched the Thai economy to breaking point, so I am not surprised to find that the government have decided to increase taxes. In a move reminiscent of many an unpopular UK Chancellor faced with a huge [...]
I was out on a little nature walk around the housing development here in Nong Hin, Thailand when I noticed some activity in a small frangipane tree.
With a few storms this week my Thai garden has had a few natural soakings. This is certainly making some of the more dormant plants spring into life its as if they can sense the impending SW monsoon. One or two of the orchids are showing signs of life and there is a [...]
I posted about my new tattoo but didn’t actually give any information about it. Sorry for this. I am a little absent minded at times.
The symbols represent the Seven Virtues of Bushido. I trained martial arts for a long time when I was younger. I used to study a martial art called Zen Do Kai [...]
As I have already said I found it extremely difficult to get decent photographs of the thousands of butterflies around the waterfalls at Huay Yang National Park, Thailand.
Today’s photograph demonstrates this point since it is by no means a perfect shot, but I have included it just to give you an idea of what [...]
Swimming with Nong Ja, Isaan Thailand.
The Most Beautiful Thai Girl. In My Eyes.
Christmas Is Not Over in Isaan Thailand.
The Residence Hua Hin
Two New Floating Markets in Hua Hin
Caroline Wozniacki Goes to Thailand
Am I Getting Too Old?
Christmas in Isaan Thailand 2011.
Celebrating Christmas in Thailand
