Category: Far East Trip 2024-2025

After visiting Sumatra, I have a couple of weeks before Danika arrives and it seems that dealing with the well is going to be my main job before heading off to meet her in Bangkok. There is far too much air in the system, despite all the check valves, pressure gauges, control system and the…

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…