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A spot of bother from letterfromthailand 152 days old

Hangovers and boats are uneasy bedfellows but the wedding I had travelled to the isolated island of Koh Lipe in Thailand's southern-most province for ...

Denis, you're a mong from letterfromthailand 167 days old

My travel companion on my trip to my sister's wedding had inexplicably failed to meet me on a connection flight from Bangkok too the southern Thai city ...

Good to be home from letterfromthailand 298 days old

My homebound flight cut into Dublin at an angle which gave me a great view of the city below. It looked as grey, damp and low-key as ever but I couldn’t ...

Getting the hang of the place in time to leave from letterfromthailand 309 days old

[ ... ] my Thai co-workers at the beach-ready foreigners whose dress sense doubled as sign reading, ‘I’m an oblivious tourist!’. Another big ...

You gonna shoot me bud or what's the story? from letterfromthailand 367 days old

It was another one of those moments when you stop, exhale deeply and wonder how in the name of sweet suffering Jaysus you manage to land yourself into ...

A spot of rain from letterfromthailand 406 days old

I finally arrived at the main road transit depot of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh two days after I’d set out from Bangkok under the impression that ...

You can do wha? from letterfromthailand 464 days old

I arrived back to Bangkok after my five-day cat-and-mouse game with the foot soldiers of Myanmar’s military junta nursing a residual terror at ...

To the victor goes the spoils from letterfromthailand 507 days old

[ ... ] my Thai trainers by winning my first Muay Thai fight I barely spent five minutes without some bloke’s arm around my shoulder. My ...

Muay Thai Pt 3 from letterfromthailand 535 days old

Around the start of the year, after going along to a few Muay Thai classes, I was pretty much suckered into agreeing to fighting a bout by my jovial ...

The pig incident pt 4 - fin from letterfromthailand 538 days old

So there I was – surrounded a group of Karen tribesmen in a tiny isolated village on the side of a hill a stone's throw from the Burmese border. ...