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Sunday, 1 February 2015

What's Changed?

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I was apprehensive about the journey back to Thailand and Thamuang village.  Just over a year ago, when I was taken ill and hospitalised, I...

Twelve months on

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It's now a little over  twelve months since my heart by-pass operation.  Slowly I am looking towards the future rather than looking bac...
Saturday, 22 March 2014

A visit to Ubon Ratchathani general hospital

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Having driven many hundreds of kilometres, we arrived in Ubon Ratchathani. En route, Khamma learned that one of her many cousins had been a...
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Sunday, 22 September 2013

Driving Like 'An Idiot Abroad'

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Overall we travelled over 5,000 kilometres, but I couldn't get used to driving Thailand style.  At times I felt like I was whinging a l...
Thursday, 12 September 2013

Thai Drums

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It was not long after building 'Owerrrouse' that Khamma introduced me to the village band.  Not the ageing rockers of England style...

Ayyuthaya or is it Ayutthaya?

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Whichever it is spelt it is one of the must see places for the serious visitor to Thailand.  Whilst there are many beautiful beaches, natio...

Prachaup Khiri Khan to Ayyuthaya

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A few weeks ago, back in England, I was contemplating the road atlas of Thailand and planning the route from Phuket to Thamuang.  It is a l...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Prachuap Khiri Khan

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With an exotic sounding name of Prachuap Khiri Khan and almost half way between Bangkok and Phuket, this seaside resort was the ideal locat...

Phuket's quieter places

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We soon realised that Phuket should not be judged by what we saw sprawled out each side of road 402. August is the 'off peak' seaso...
Sunday, 8 September 2013

Driving south to Phuket

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After leaving the Bangkok maelstrom we started to move south onto relatively calmer highways.  I say calmer, but to me I still felt out of ...