Category Archives: Thailand

The Sweet Smell of Durian

April 23, 2023 – 11:47 am

Many Asian foods are alien to westerners. Insects, horseshoe crab eggs, and sum tam or spicy mango salad easily come to mind as foreign to the tongues of farangs, however the most unacceptable Oriental delicacy remains the ever-malodorous durian. The stench of this squishy fruit is so disagreeable to non-aficionados that durian joined hand grenades […]

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Songkran Driving

April 13, 2023 – 1:38 am

Nothing says Songkran better in Thailand than getting into an accident with a drunk, as revealed in this series of email dated from 2006. EMAIL from the Old Roue April 4 after I invited him to join me on a trip to Phnom Penh to escape the Songkran madness. His reply. No thanx, I’m driving […]

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The Missing Of Loy Krathong

November 8, 2022 – 1:18 am

The most beautiful holidays in the world are the Hindu Diwali and Thailand’s Loy Krathong. These festivals of light celebrate the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month. I have celebrated Diwali in Lhasa Tibet with the Indian cooks of the Snow Dragon Hotel and Loy Krathong with my wives and children. Sadly this […]

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Witch of Isaan

November 7, 2022 – 8:47 pm
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Rising Of The Gulf Of Siam – VDO

August 4, 2022 – 9:38 pm

Sri Racha pier – April 2022

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