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It's got to be said that I've let the jungle around the back get a little out of hand. I've been busy. It's been hot. I can't be arsed. ...

When the Montien Riverside hotel was opened to huge fanfare back in 1996, it was considered one of the most luxurious hotels in Bangkok....

https://images.ecency.com/DQmdVw5DFZQKZH9a6d5FNm1NSjW4obLDUH8jG1vC5KzVQBF/screenshot.png Since moving to Thailand, I've always been fasci...

In a recent post, I featured the wonderful, provincial coastal town of Khlong Wan in Prachup Kiri Khan province and its laid-back atmos...

As well as Nathorn being the administrative 'capital' of Koh Samui, it's also home to the island's port. This is where the biggest ferr...

It’s been a slightly quieter week this week as the schools on the island had their half-term breaks. It hardly seems a minute since it wa...

Khlong Wan is a small fishing town that sits in the shadow of an imposing peninsula at the mouth of the River Wan on the Gulf of Thaila...

It had been almost a year since I'd taken the old Sony SLR out for a spin, and after some rather disappointing results, had perhaps taken...

I guess for many, the romanticised view of Thailand is of simple huts lining palm fringed beaches as a crystal clear ocean laps gently o...

Welcome to KOB Homegrown in Hua Thanon, Koh Samui, Thailand. It's only around one hundred metres from the Amazon coffee shop I posted ab...

It's a little late, but as I write this at 06.10am on Boxing Day in Thailand, its still Christmas day in the UK and everywhere West of ...

Another post on which I hit 'post' rather than 'save to draft' so I've posted a picture of a pink elephant! It is a rather special pink e...

It's been a very tough few days, but with the end of the tunnel finally appearing, it was time to rush out into the light and escape to a...

I know. I may have promised no further posts involving temples, but I find myself being dragged ever deeper into this alternative and s...

I’ve been going on about sorting out a proper driveway ever since I moved in this house but we’ve come around to thinking that we both qu...

Cafe Amazon is a Thai coffee chain with over 2400 branches scattered about Thailand. They are owned by the huge oil company, PTT with e...

After three weeks away, we came home to find the garden an even bigger bomb site than usual. It had been raining and my efforts to keep...

This last week, there has been a local festival to Samui and the Southern areas of Thailand in which floats festooned with Buddhist imag...

Last Monday, one of Fon's relatives, who lives about fifty yards down the road, was getting married and as is tradition, there had to be ...

The Skyline restaurant in Pontefract. OMG. That font!! Back in the UK, the wife soon tires of bread and potatoes and craves a taste of h...

My little boy is ill. About three weeks ago we noticed blood in his urine and called the vet who told us it was quite common and to brin...

For the last twelve months I've been tutoring 12 and 15 year old sisters in Maths. Yes. That's maths with an 's'. Don't get me started! ...

I have absolutely no idea what this fly is, but at around 2cm in length, he was quite a big one! The colours are beautiful and he(?) sat...

After reading @livinguktaiwans ‘s recent Garden report I thought it was time to do the same, and like LUT, have had some, ‘mixed fortunes...

Just another small job on the endless to-do list was to fit an additional outdoor tap. We had one, I use it for my hose pipe, but after b...

A couple of weeks back we were in Bangkok for the weekend and staying in a hotel built on top of my the biggest IT mall, and one of my f...

During my trip back to the UK at Christmas, I was showing my cousin some photos of Koh Samui which he was quite impressed with. This was...

It's been a very odd couple of weeks, so to start, no. Not a 'joke' headline. I've actually got a mate from Kazakhstan who brought me ba...

I may have mentioned before how we don't appear to be on the best of terms with the owners of the land next door. How much of this is fa...

The wife had a fellow OT friend down from Chiang Mai with her partner for their first visit to Samui so we decided to go full-on touris...