Friday, 14 October 2016 to Thursday, 20 October 2016
We woke up Friday morning with Thailand in mourning. I think the shock of King Bhumibol’s passing yesterday afternoon has only now set in. King Bhumibol was a most revered leader that led his country for 70 years. The Thai people are understandably extremely sad as he was a father figure to all; he was the only King most people have ever known, so it is really as if a family member, and much more, had passed away. Continue reading →

Friday, 7 October 2016 to Thursday, 13 October 2016
Supper Friday night was had at The Blue Ox restaurant where they have the Oktoberfest celebrations and where we had a great meal a week ago. Tonight though there was no German folk music, no beer on tap, seemed like the Oktoberfest was all fested out. There was though a three piece local Pai band that was playing farang music. The one guy was on guitar and lead vocals, one was on bass and backing vocals and an oldish hermit type of a chap on percussion, and he was not vocal at all. Continue reading →

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 (23 September 2016) to Thursday (29 September 2016)
Well I woke up Sunday mornin’, with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt… Now you may think I stole that line from Kris Kristofferson’s Sunday Morning Coming Down but you would be wrong, he was hung-over, I had the flu. But I’m getting ahead of myself… 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 (3 July 2015)
Had a great sleep, woke up at 08H30 and after our normal morning ritual, we had a breakfast of note which consisted of eggs, cheese, tomato, fried onions, Kalamata olives and toast.

I decided that I needed to put in more hours in order to get the blog as current as possible. The process I have been following thus far is as follows. 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 →