Chinese New Year

I walked the 5km back into town tonight with an English backpacker for New Year, saw some traditional Thai dances and music and drank some Asahi and Singhas. I ate the street food which was awesome. We were the only farang for miles so it was very cool, I kept catching people looking in our [...]

Monks, and tigers, and english – oh my!

Good thing they fed the tigers today…the one I was scratching lazily rolled on his back and looked at me with one eye. It was obvious that he was too hot, too full, and too lazy to rip my throat out. Today, my Italian friend Romina and I walked 2 km to the bus station [...]

Happy New Year – almost

I got up today around 07:00 to the sound of a machine gun fired in the air followed by lots of firecrackers, etc. My jetlag so far has been beneficial in that it gets me out of bed early. The weather here is perfect, low humidity and so sunny and warm. I ran into my [...]

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