Category: Expat in Thailand

Who Remembers the Days of Comptometers? Who among the older generation of quantity surveyors remembers a comptometer being used in the office? If you do, there is a good chance you began your career in the 1970s or even earlier. For younger surveyors, the word comptometer may be unfamiliar, yet for decades the comptometer played […]

Driving East from Bangkok? Beware the Bang Pakong Roadworks Where Can Drivers Find Reliable Traffic Information in Thailand? Last week, following the 12 August national holiday, I travelled down to the seaside town of Sri Racha with my family for a short holiday. The drive should have been straightforward. Instead, it became a reminder of […]

Watching Bangkok Rise: Memories of Sathorn Road in the 1990s Last week my wife and I met one of my oldest friends for lunch, along with his university-age daughter. We’ll call my friend “Hamish”, not his real name, but because, well, he’s Scottish. It was the end of their holiday here and they were days […]

What the QS profession was thinking 27 years ago about the future “The QS: a profession on the brink Change or die. That’s the message to QSs from the biggest survey ever carried out among the profession. The survivors will be those that adapt their skills and services to the new world. A survey of […]

Thailand’s QR Code Payments vs the UK’s Contactless Payments: Which Is Better? My wife and I visited the market at Interlink Tower this morning, better known to many Bangkok residents as the former Nation Tower. Normally, I stay in the car while she nips in to buy whatever she needs as parking at the building […]

A Comparison of Some Aspects of Thai Life Compared to UK Life on a Recent Trip to Manchester (Part 2) NOTE: Part 1 offered a few comparisons between aspects UK and Thai life, while Part 2 only looks at a point of interest on the trip, local historical bridges. Introduction As I explained in Part […]

A Comparison of Some Aspects of Thai Life Compared to UK Life on a Recent Trip to Manchester (Part 1) NOTE: Part 1 offers a few comparisons between aspects UK and Thai life, while Part 2 only looks at a point of interest on the trip, local historical bridges. Introduction The wife and I recently […]

Road trip to discover Saraburi’s UFO spaceship-shaped Wat, Phetchabun’s UNESCO Si Thep Historical Park, and star of the trip, Khao Klang Nok November 2025, I had two weeks off work, so the wife and I were off on a road trip up north to Phetchabun province. Sounds good doesn’t it, but really we were on […]

Bangkok Podcast’s latest episode ‘Conflict & Legacy: Journalist Denis Gray Discusses His New Memoir [S8.E47]’ As a follow-up to our article ‘An elegy to lost worlds – Denis D. Gray’s memoir ‘Lost Horizons – A foreign correspondent’s extraordinary life story’ , have a listen to the Bangkok Podcast’s latest episode ‘Conflict & Legacy: Journalist Denis […]