It has been quite some time since I last sat down to write another blog entry – I guess this is what happens to many people who dream of having their own blog and making the world their oyster; it’s definitely not that easy, … Read more...
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A large number of the trips and surveys I made throughout Thailand involved visits to famous temples throughout the country – by this I mean old or cultural heritage and archaeological sites, not the garish varieties, … Read more...
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I am fitter now than I was a decade ago; probably fitter now than when I was in my mid-to-late thirties, come to think of it. For me exercise has been one of those things that comes in spurts; a … Read more...
Continue reading...I really hope there is a special level in hell for all the bureaucrats who have ever developed ‘special internal regulations’ to make life miserable for the general populace. Notice I didn’t say purgatory. The reason I open with this wish is simple. After nearly a decade of being in the country, … Read more...
Continue reading...I have been in a somewhat procrastinatory mood lately – I ‘put to bed’, as the journalistic phrase goes, my final episode about travel through South America a week or so ago and posted it with a feeling of ‘so now what’? I needed a break from writing, and some … Read more...
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