Friday, 30 September 2016 to Thursday, 6 October 2016
Today my flu was much better than earlier in the week but I was still feeling a bit woozy. I bemoaned my wooziness to Adri who responded with a “Be patient, Rome wasn’t built in a day”. And that was supposed to make me feel better? “Yea I know, but I also don’t want to feel like this for a thousand years” I heard myself mumble. Adri thought it was mildly amusing, I was still beyond thought. Continue reading →

Friday (16 September 2016)
On my way back from dropping Adri at school I was on a keen lookout for that thin longish black-as-night snake that I inadvertently rode over yesterday morning. There was no evidence of a body on the road so I guess he got away with a mere physical bruising from our encounter, mine was a more severe mental one. Continue reading →

Friday (9 September 2016)
After I dropped Adri at school I realized that the bike’s fuel was getting low so stopped off at the local PTT station for a fill up. Once filled up my stallion was raring to go, chomping at the bits, so I gave it free rein and it bolted out of town towards Phon. It then turned off towards Ban Phai at a fine gallop and only slowed down to a canter and then down to a trot when I reined it in to take me into and around a number of little villages Continue reading →

Friday (2 September 2016)
Nong Song Hong was good to us, but… it will be good to move on as well. Be as it may, we’re sure gonna miss this place. Adri woke up this morning with a just-eleven-more-working-days-left look in her eyes and I understood. In two weeks’ time Adri’s stint will come to an end, the stint of Teaching English in a Foreign Language (TEFL). She insisted on getting practical teaching experience after completing her TEFL course towards the end Continue reading →

Friday (26 June 2015)
After we stocked up with all sorts of foods the previous day, we had a great breakfast and then started working. Work was interrupted, pleasantly I might add, with a Skype video call to my colleagues, or should I say, ex-colleagues. We had this ritual at work, when it was someone’s birthday, we would all gather around the person’s desk, I would give the intro with “uh one, uh two, uh one two three four” and Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →