I’ve spent a large part of the past week editing some of my earlier posts. While reading one, I noticed it had promised an update about Wilai’s business selling Thai market flowers. That sent me scurrying to this site’s Category Index to search for the last relevant post indexed there....
Thai Flower Garlands and Posies – Working 5 to 9 When I mention to someone, Wonderful Wi has a flower business selling Thai flower garlands and posies; sometimes, they cast an envious eye. They imagine lots of money and the trappings that go with it. They couldn’t be further from...
My annual Christmas pilgrimage to Thailand got off to a great start once again. For many years now Etihad Airways have upgraded me to Business Class for the Heathrow to Abu Dhabi leg of my Christmas flight. That was the case again and the ‘golden parachute’ continued for the second...
Early this year my Thai partner Wonderful Wi set up shop in our village garden selling som tum (spicy papaya salad). A Thai style thatch roof kitchen was built, and the village’s newest snack service rolled out. It wasn’t by any means an innovative business idea, but there was a hungry market out there willing...
Tesco Lotus is as good a place as any to grab a few tasty Thai snacks but the picture above taken in the heart of Udon Thani’s countryside has a sea of lotus light bites that many Thais and a sprinkling of Westerners love to eat. At the centre of each cluster of green...
Phu Rua in Loei Province is a botanist’s dream in December. For any lover of flowers the small town and mountainous surround of Phu Rua has a parallel to a Buddhist cocaine addict being reborn as a Columbian nightclub toilet cleaner. In Phu Rua a horticulturist can snort the fragrance...
Some of you may think I’ve got a lot of cheek writing a post about Thai village life which includes a picture of mashed potatoes, super-sized baked beans and a meat pie. Trust me… that line-up of great British grub is just a lead up to my story about Aloe...
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