Lamai beach

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →