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  • Bye-Bye Tuk-Tuk

    Apologies for the lack of updates. We’ve been alternately without internet access and too exhausted to types since checking out of our hotel in Bangkok… On our last day in Bangkok we went shopping. We were going to start with a swim, but the water in the impressively decorated pool was only 18 degrees C.…

  • Chatuchak and Chinatown

    So far the Siam City is proving to be the worst of the hotels that we have stayed at in Thailand. Full of tour groups, ornate opulence rather than modern style and crappy expensive internet. Advantages: it’s close to the Phaya Thai Skytrain and Airport line stations. It does have a decent buffet breakfast and…

  • Chiang Mai to Bangkok by a very slow train

    It wasn’t the longest railway journey that I’ve been on, but it felt like it was. It wasn’t the worst train ride either (that was in China), but it was getting close to some of those horrible overnight train rides between Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton when I was a student. A two and a half…

  • Market-ing in Chiang Mai

    After all of the previous day’s excitement we needed something more relaxing. So today we did very little. Woke up late, ate breakfast, let Alex play with the hotel staff, who seem to love him. He’s been very good at charming the locals with an easy “Hi!” and his excited descriptions of things like “fountains!”…

  • Elephants, oxen, tigers and Donald Duck

    Alex cried out in agony,as if he were burning. Nothing we gave him could ease his pain. No, he hadn’t been thrown unrestrained through the car window on a busy Thai road. Nor was this a consequence of falling down a ledge on to concrete. He hadn’t been trampled by an elephant, or slipped off…

  • Wat’s boutique?

    What’s a boutique airline? One with art works hung all around the cabin? Trendy service? Small numbers of passengers? Whatever the answer, we were about to find out. We woke to the sound of rain. It was dark, except for flashes of lightning. I assumed that it must be very early, as Thailand is four…

  • En-thai-rely Satisfied: Sydney to Bangkok

    I’m an idiot. No, don’t even pretend to disagree with me. It is true, I am an idiot. When we finally made it out of the house and on to the bus, then train, I was looking forward to a classic airport experience. The kind of experience you get when you are flying from the…

  • Music in Melbourne

    On a lighter note, last Sunday I flew down to Melbourne for the day to listen to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra perform the music of John Williams in their Star Wars and Beyond concert at the Town Hall. It’s crazy, I know, but to me Star Wars and Melbourne are inextricably linked. I have watched…

  • Rattled by rads, it’s Thai-m to go elsewhere

    When Jetstar finally announced that they would permit Japan flights to be rebooked or cancelled without penalty I felt terribly depressed. All that hard work planning and researching for nothing. Nothing suggests that the southern areas of Japan are being affected by elevated radiation levels and most experts say there is little threat. Still, with…

  • What now for Japan?

    The question that everyone asks me right now is “so, are you still going to Japan?” The answer is increasingly that of “I don’t know.” I have been keeping a very close eye on the nuclear powerplant situation. Should there be the possibility of radioactive fallout fall in Kyoto and further south then we will…