Khao Chae – Thailand’s Special Dish for Songkhran Songkhran is the old Thai New Year. It is a special time of the year for Thais, which is often trivialised by Westerners, calling it such things as a ‘Water Festival’. Describing Songkhran as a water festival is like calling Christmas a festival of wrapping paper. Do …
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Holidays in Thailand – How Much? Thailand is, and has been for at least a decade, right at the top of both the world’s holiday resorts and travellers’ wish-list destinations. The same goes for retirees and expats, and the question I am asked most often, as someone who lives in Thailand is, how much …
Party Season in Thailand There is a definite period in the year that most people would recognize as the party season in Thailand. The casual observer may say that party season in Thailand is March and April and it is true that there are a lot of events that a Protestant Christian would probably see as …
A New Behind The Smile – BTS5 This is just a snippet of information for those of you have or are enjoying the ‘Behind The Smile’ series: I have started a fifth and am making good progress. I am not sure what to call it yet, but I am thinking of Stepping Stones’. It will …
Pattaya Beach By John Elray A Common Tale of Woe Told in an Uncommon Way Review by Owen Jones When I was given this book by it’s author because he had heard that I lived in Pattaya, it was two years ago, but little did he know that I was writing my own first novel …
The Disallowed A Story of Modern Vampires by Owen Jones More Addams Family than Trad Vlad Gothic Vampire Review by Barry Boy I can virtually guarantee that you have never read a book that purports to be about vampires like this one before! This story is not your Trad Vlad …
Are Vampires Real? Many people ask themselves: Are vampires real? You might think that it would be mostly children who would ask this question, but many adults wonder about it too. Many people think that the vampire legends started with Vlad the Impaler of the Dark Ages or Bram Stoker in the Victorian era, …
I don’t keep a diary as such, but I do like to record special days. June 23rd, 2014 is one such day for several reasons. Please read on…
This is an unsolicited review of Daddy’s Hobby, the first part of the trilogy on Lek in Pattaya. Daddy’s Hobby in Review originally on Amazon
Pattaya – Fun or Sin City? Pattaya is a large seaside resort situated on the north-eastern side of the Gulf of Thailand. It is about 160 km from Bangkok or an hour’s taxi ride from the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. It is said to be host to over 1,000,000 visitors every year and I would …
Seen Bites Like These? If you have ever seen bites like these, please say what you think did this to me in the comments box below 🙂 I woke up with them three days ago. These are on my right side, just above my hip and my right hand was also bitten, though the three …
Bpom’s 100 Days Seven years ago, a neighbour’s dog, that we used to feed sometimes, got pregnant and so we started to feed her more as her owners were often at work. One day, Da, the dog, disappeared and it was only a month later that she came bounding into a shop where my wife …
Dead Centre When a bomb goes off in Scheherazade’s, a posh department store in Baghdad, leaving nearly 200 people dead or wounded, the authorities and the police think that it is just another routine case of it’s type and appoint Captain Ali Allawi of the National Police to head the investigation. He has no clues …
Behind The Smile: The Trilogy 27/2/2014 “I thoroughly enjoyed reading all 1/2/3 BTS books even though I was getting annoyed in book 2 with Lek’s selfish and self-centred attitude regarding the house and her image and standing in the village, but fell over laughing with the image of Craig staying in the old timber shack he’d bought, and trying to get some sleep …
Touching Thai Women Most people who travel to Thailand (and that is men) only visit the large cities and tourist islands, and only meet girls in bars. There is nothing wrong with that, but it does lead them to think that the whole of Thai society is as open as those girls. There could be …
The Disallowed Giveaway Chupacabras on Backpacker Blood Milkshake a Rafflecopter giveaway Heng Lee is a goatherd in the remote mountains north-east of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, very close to the border with Laos. It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows one another. Heng gets sick all of a sudden, but not too sick …
Backpacking in Thailand I lived in Europe in the Sixties and Seventies, the hay days of backpacking, although in those days, I called it hitchhiking. I’m not really sure if backpacking is the same thing. I used to wear a rucksack if I was going a long way or carry a sports bag if not. …
Holiday in North Thailand Last week I finished writing my latest book, ‘The Disallowed‘. I had originally planned to locate it in Laos, but a few Thai friends persuaded me to place it in north Thailand, so I made a compromise and put the family in the top eastern corner of north Thailand on the …
