Author: Colin

I am waiting on the jetty at my guesthouse for the ferry. The agent that sold me the bus ticket has kindly come here to make sure I get on the ferry and as it passes by he gives them a beckoning wave. Now they know to come and pick me up on their way…

I flew from Buriram in northeast Thailand to Don Meung in Bangkok, which is the old airport and then had to wait a couple of hours for my flight to Medan. All went smoothly and soon there I was in Sumatra, a name to conjure up all sorts of myths, legends and thoughts of jungles,…

It’s been a few weeks since my mum went home and as promised I’ve mostly been putting my feet up. We have been to a few parties at some old school friends of Sasipa’s. At one they had just built a house and he proudly showed us around. It was strange to see a modern…

My mother is coming over to Thailand for a couple of weeks so we are heading down to meet her at the airport in Bangkok. It’s only a couple of weeks since my previous blog ended, so not much to report. The days drift by if you don’t do much except enjoy the food and…

Back at Saipa’s, the dogs fortunately remember me again and the house looks clean to me, despite Sasipa saying it’s not finished. The concrete driveway she put in looks good. A few things have been rearranged, but it’s otherwise about the same. The new motorbike I bought is now 9 months old and has 10k…

It’s been a very long seven and a half months, with the apartments full every day and the launch of our new travel business Outstanding Holidays – www.outstandingholidays.com, so I was very pleased to shut up shop and hop on a plane to Ireland and see my daughter Deyna for a week, before heading back…

An early start and off to Don Mueang, Bangkok’s older airport that has been replaced by the new international airport since around 2006. Luckily Sasipa has a relative nearby, so we were able to leave the car there and take a taxi for the last couple of miles. It is her first time going abroad…

Back in the North East of Thailand for a couple of weeks and a rest from traveling. It’s been quite tiring so I am glad to be back at Sasipa’s, but I find putting my feet up isn’t really on the cards. In my absence the motorbike has been killed. It was overheating a bit,…

It has been a bit of a whirlwind the last couple of weeks, so I am a long way behind on my blog. Then a couple more weeks went by and I still hadn’t posted so here it is, eventually. I am currently in Kuching, Sarawak state in western Borneo. I’m busy typing away at…

I am sitting at Kota Kinabula (known locally as KK) airport in Sabah, eastern Borneo as I write, waiting for my flight to Sandakan, just under an hour’s flying time away, where I will spend a few days cruising along the Kinabatangan river, wildlife watching for orangutangs, probiscus monkeys, exotic birds and maybe some pygmy…