Life here in Koh Chang is assuming a rhythm all of its own. The days have turned into weeks and now into months. I’ll soon be three months here, a quarter of a year. Now, who would have guessed that half a year ago. London and my life back there[…]
I generally wake up early and spend the hour before breakfast in silence. The other morning I heard the call of a bird outside my window. I went out to have a look and saw a bird that looked like a large wagtail but with a large white patch on[…]
Weather here has changed a lot since I last wrote (where do the days and weeks go?). We are now well into the rainy season and will be for a good few months. It means that the remorseless heat has stopped and it rains a lot. And I mean, a[…]
With rare sartorial wisdom I went to Uniqlo the day before I left for Thailand and bought seven short sleeved linen shirts of various colours, even a shocking pink one, and four pairs of cotton shorts. Two of the shorts were khaki and the others were an alarming green and[…]
Took me longer than I expected to get this Blog out. First, we had an earlier than expected harbinger of the rains to come and then the Internet was down for a bit. But all these are just excuses. I was really too lazy and this was because it is[…]
Yesterday was my first proper day off. I went “downtown” to White Sands, one of the better of the tourist ghettos in Koh Chang. I left the place I stay around 11.30 am and caught a taxi to drop me off in the middle of White Sands so I could[…]
The wheels of the car rumbled across the steel deck of the ferry and finally crunched onto the island of Koh Chang. At last, I had arrived in my new home. What joy. As the island is a national park and mountainous, there is very little development except along the[…]
Whatever else Koh Chang is, it’s not cool. Kool maybe but never cool. Scorching is not an exageration. I arrived on the island on Friday morning following a short car journey from Chantiburi. We got the ferry from a ramshackle but very human harbour. The ferry looked home-made and was[…]
Well, I made it. I have finally arrived in Thailand. Who would have guessed this a few months ago. I began writing this while waiting in the transit lounge at Schiphol Airport for my plane to Bangkok. I enjoy being in this no-mans land or limbo while awaiting my flight.[…]