Thailand
Podcast: Care for Dogs, Chiang Mai
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] Care for Dogs is an animal welfare organisation based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Listen to an interview with Karin Hawelka, one of the Care for Dogs founders by clicking the play button above. Care for Dogs was set [...]
Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep and the white elephant legend
The legend goes that a monk named Sumanathera from Sukhothai had a dream; in this dream he was told to go to Pang Cha and look for a artifact. Sumanathera went to Pang Cha and found a bone, which many state was Buddha’s shoulder bone. The relic displayed magical powers; it shined, it was able [...]
Podcast: Pun Pun – Sustainable organic farming
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] In this podcast, I met up with Peggy and Jo – the two founders of Pun Pun. During the interview, we discussed their views on Sustainable living & farming, Earthen house building, how they started out, and the [...]
The 10 best things about living in Thailand
Following on from my slightly negative (but honest) post on the 10 most annoying things about living in Thailand, as promised here are the ten best things about living in Thailand as I see them, again in no particular order. 1. The people Thai people are generally exceptionally friendly, accepting, smiley and non-aggressive. They also [...]
Thai Electric City nightmare
Last night I was hungrily making some raisin toast and the toaster made a huge flash and bang. This brings my tally of things that have been destroyed by the Thai electricity system to four. These are: 120GB external hardrive Ipod charger Four point ‘surge protector’ power board Toaster Especially during the rainy season, you [...]
Thailand Google maps – now in English!
We’re celebrating this landmark development by bringing you an example below. Here’s Wat Phra Tat Doi Suthep the very famous mountain temple on Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai… From now on we can easily show you maps to the places that feature in our posts. No more old-school text-based directions. Just click-and-drag on the map [...]
The best qualirty helmet, in Thailand
Absoluterly. The visor cracked and fell off a few weeks ago, then the chin strap ripped off as I was doing up my helmet. A cheap but sadly ineffective helmet. Probably shouldn’t complain – at £7 ($14) from Tesco Metro it was an absolute steal.
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