Sunrise over Kathu. View from the road to Patong....
Friday, 14 April 2006
Thursday, 13 April 2006
Yesterday (April 13th 2006) was Songkran - the Thai new year. Well, actually they get loads of new years here. Thai's will happily celebrate the Western New Year, the Chinese New Year, the Buddhist New Year, and no doubt the sizeable Muslim population celebrate the Islamic New Year too.Songkran is marked by the water based festivities, which traditionally were limited to sprinking some water on the head of your elders, or going to the temple for...
Monday, 10 April 2006
So one day in April 2006 we decided to take a day trip from Phuket to Phi Phi and be real tourists. The weather looked a little grey, but the plan had been made and tickets already paid for. The ferry to Phi Phi departs from Rassada pier on the east side of Phuket Town, just before the bridge to Koh Sirey. Departure time is 08:30, and the place can be a bit crowded. I think there were 4 boats leaving, all run by different companies. We got the slowest...
Friday, 7 April 2006
Updated July 2012 - this was the second restaurant to be blogged on Jamie's Phuket - originally blogged in April 2006 (we first ate there in January 2005), and it's still a favourite! Convenient location for us, not too far from home, good price and the food is always decent.Dairy Hut? Sounds like an ice cream parlour, and with a big cow outside the door, you might think you could stroll in and order a Sundae, but in fact it's a normal restaurant....
After a looong wait at Phuket Airport due to long lines at immigration, we picked up my parents this morning. My daughter kept asking "why are they so slow, daddy?". Baby boy started crying and I had to dash back across the car park to get his milk bottle. He then fell asleep in the car on the way home. Its only 25 minutes from our house to the airport. We all squeezed in for the drive, as we had forgotten to take out the baby seat :(Will have to be a short days work today. Tonight I imagine we'll go out for dinner. I feel a beef salad (Yam Nuea)...
Thursday, 6 April 2006
(Continued from Part I)Written in 2006.It was hard for me to be close to so much death, and yet have suffered not one bit. Indeed, I knew nobody who suffered. Our house in Kathu is about as far as you can get from the sea. It would need a giant tsunami of biblical proportions to reach us. It might have been so different. On Christmas Day, one day before the tsunami, we were sitting, drinking, playing, talking on Kamala beach, worst hit of all beaches in Phuket. It was not until a good 8 months later that we went back to Kamala, to the spot where...
New! On May 25th 2006 I started a new blog:• My Phuket Weather BlogActually, I'm not sure how hot it is outside today, as I am in an airconditioned room. But we can reasonably assume the temperature to be in the low 30's celsius. Nice and warm. The weather has been a little "odd" this year. Rains continued into November and December, which in 2004 were almost bone dry. Then we had a wet week in March, too with some really grey skies and English style drizzle. Of course the air was still warm, maybe around 29 degrees, so any comparison to a wet...
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Update 2010: I have written a new Laem Hin Seafood Restaurant Phuket page - restaurant still as good as ever!Phuket has many restaurants slightly off the beaten track and more or less unknown to tourists. Laem Hin Seafood is one of these. Popular with locals, it can get busy, especially at weekends. If you see a western face there, you can be pretty sure they live in Phuket.Location: A little North of Phuket Town, at Laem Hin. There is a signposted...
Wow, yesterday was a busy one. Our web sites are mostly available in Italian, and I had to prepare templates for about 50 pages to pass on to Diego for translation. What fun!Tomorrow is a special day, as my mum and dad will arrive from England for a 3 week visit. It's the third time to Thailand for them. We have some trips planned to Phi Phi, Khao Sok, Krabi, Koh Yao, Chumphon and more. They will be meeting my 1 year old son for the first time, I'm...
Tuesday, 4 April 2006
I first heard this song in the movie Paris, Texas. It meant more after I'd been in Mexico. I hardly have any chance to speak Spanish nowadays, but still have a lot of music gathered during my travels in Latin America. Something about the Spanish language speaks to the heart. It's the language of love and loss, of joy and pain. Quisiera morir de sentimiento.¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!Inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamientoy al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al vientoquisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.¡Oh tierra del...
Monday, 3 April 2006
On the subject of blogs. This one got noticed too and he has published books. Makes me hungry. Such delicacies are hard to find in Thailand. Beans are OK. I have found some good tinned beans made in Malaysia. Eggs, no worries. Bacon, easy enough to find..but it's the chips, oh the chips, that maketh the man. I mean chips, not "fries". The eggbaconchipsandbeans blog below is worth salivating over, and I love his comments such as:"the chips are pale,...
I first went to Utila in 1996, one of the stops on my 20 month backpacking trip through the Americas. I started in Montreal, ended in Santiago. Got as far North as the arctic circle in Alaska, and as far South as Tierra del Fuego. I'd do it all again, but Utila was the place that drew me back to Central America in 1998. Stayed another 6 months (4 of them in Utila) and after a quick money earning dash back to the UK, I was back in Utila in November 1998. Stayed until September 1999. Since then I have been living and diving in Phuket, Thailand.Utila...
Ever since 26th December 2004, I have become somewhat obsessed by earthquakes. We live in Phuket. We lived through the tsunami and it's after effects. Our son was born here 2 weeks after the tsunami.Truth be told, like 95% of Phuket's population, we did not see anything that day. I felt the quake at about 8:30am, and thought about where the epicenter might be. My wife felt it too. We thought nothing of it. I went out to Tesco Lotus at 9am. When I came out into the carpark, I saw many ambulances racing towards Patong. I thought maybe there had been...
Saturday, 1 April 2006
The bypass road in Phuket was officially opened yesterday. The road is now 4 lane from the Sam Kong junction next to Tesco Lotus, up to the airport road. The Sam Kong junction still needs a tidy up. The amount of road works in the last 2 years is amazing. So many 4 lane roads in Phuket now. There have been massive infrastructure improvements in the last few years, though one can still not rely 100% on electric and water supplies...And the shopping opportunites! When I got here 6 years ago, Lotus was there (only the supermarket). This expanded to...
It's the elections in Thailand tomorrow. I should just about have time to buy a beer from the local shop before 6pm. Officially no alcohol is allowed to be sold from 6pm today until midnight tomorrow. The election seems pointless as the main opposition parties are not taking part. Thaksin will win again. Politics plays no part in my daily life. I try to ignore it. Same when I was living in the UK, though I did vote a couple of times.All we hope is that there is no trouble. Parents arrive from England on the 7th.The latest situation:http://news...
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