Night to Remember
Neem and I went out with her sister's family, which lives in Bangkok, so we don't get to see them every week. It was a night to remember
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Bangkok’s Red Light District
Soi Nana is right in the heart of what most people consider to be Bangkok's Red Light District. It doesn't look like it though.
Soi Nana: Bangkok’s Red Light District
Soi Nana is ancient. It used to be a Chinese ghetto, but you wouldn't guess that now. It is now Bangkok's red light district, but not showy
Getting to Soi Nana Bangkok
Getting to Soi Nana is pretty straight forward as it is located in the very centre of Bangkok - not far from the British and Spanish embassies
Observations From Thailand
Observations From Thailand Today’s piece is more a series of observations, a sort of diary entry, I suppose. The first of the observations will be obvious to anyone in Thailand at the moment and that is the heat. The months…
Being Ill in Thailand
I cannot speak for what it is like being ill in other countries except the UK, so you will have to draw your own conclusions.
Our Visa Run to Nan
Our Visa Run to Nan My stepson drove us up to the old mountain kingdom of Nan this year for the first time. Neither he, his wife nor their sixteen-month-old baby had been there before, so the five of us…
Chase Me, Chase Me!
Chase Me, Chase Me! This is a difficult article to write because it is fraught with dangerous traps for me. You will soon see what I mean. First of all, I want to make it clear that I am not…
Free Wi-Fi Internet Access
Free Wi-Fi Internet Access I live in Northern Thailand; many of you know that already and I would like to tell you something about it, and hopefully shame my own country, if not yours. When you hear the word ‘Thailand’,…
Thai Smile
Thai Smile I saw something this evening that, I think, says a lot about the Thai smile, but perhaps first, I had better say something about the Thai smile itself. Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles, in the…
Many Deaths
Many Deaths This has been a strange year so far, but I know that it has many more stressful moments in for me and my wife. That is because we have chosen to return to Europe for a few years…
Happy New Year
Happy New Year This is the last day of Christmas, so the trimmings will be coming down all over the Western World this evening. Along with the rain and the snow, so I have heard. Here in Thailand, it is…
Massage North-Thailand Style
Massage North-Thailand Style I treated myself to a massage today. The woman who does it teaches massage at Sukhothai University and is not your average twenty-five-year-old masseuse. She is twice that age, and practices massage north-Thailand style. For those of…
Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village
Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village The first thing to say is that Christmas 2015 in a Thai Village is nothing like any Brit would recognize as Christmas. Not even in the slightest now. However, when I first arrived here,…
Google Accounts
Google Accounts I don’t know whether you think Google is great or garbage, but I tend towards the latter for several reasons. The first was when they called me a liar four years ago and closed my Adsense account costing…
Wat Party
Wat Party Last night, we went to a party at the village Buddhist Temple, which is called a Wat in Thai. My wife and many others had been helping the holder of the party prepare for it for three days.…
Holiday Season
The Holiday Season I am not talking about what some people in America and Britain erroneously call the holiday season, because that is Christmas and New Year, and I am sure that no-one who in not a Christian minds us…
Loy Krathong 2015
Loy Krathong 2015 Loy Krathong is usually described as the Thai equivalent of Saint Valentine’s Day, which is true in that it is the day of lovers. Loy Krathong in 2015 was yesterday, November 25th. I say that, because it…