Monthly Archives: June 2015

Going Greek on Koh Samui

Bophut - Ibis Hotel

Bophut – Ibis Hotel

Friday (19 June 2015)
We started with our by now normal weekday morning routine of getting up late-ish, having coffee on the patio while catching up on some reading, news and e-mails, then going to the gym for an hour, shower, have breakfast and then start our daily work for a few hours in the afternoon. By the time we start working it is normally somewhere around noon. Continue reading

Week two of our sabbatical… and still going strong

Crystal Bay

Crystal Bay

Friday (12 June 2015)
We woke up this morning feeling a bit rough around the edges after last night’s shenanigans. Probably not a good idea to overindulge too often, but it was well worth it. To get the booze out of the system we decided to do a 45 minute gym workout which was great. Walking back to the apartment, passing a group of English holidaymakers having a drink at the restaurant, the one woman exclaimed “You must be mad !” when she Continue reading

A sabbatical begins…

Choeng Mon Beach

Choeng Mon Beach

Wednesday (3 June 2015)
The alarm screeched to life at 04:30. Ouch ! Last night we went to a Turkish restaurant for the last supper, the last supper on South African soil for a while, but I could still feel the effect of the overindulgence (not the booze, mind you) from the previous night. Time to get up, mind was willing, the body not. Then it dawned on me, this was the day I have been planning for twenty plus years, the Continue reading