Category: Expat in Thailand

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 […]

Beware! The most common construction faults I see in houses in my Thai mooban; Thailand’s medical care is pretty damn good; Decline in standing for Thailand’s Royal Anthem is a sign of the times; and more Ramblings of a long-term construction expat in Thailand, 07 June 2026   Beware! The most common construction faults I […]

How’s it been as an expat watching English football in Asia and Australia these past almost 40 years? With Arsenal finally getting over the line to finish as English Premier League Champions 2025/26 for their first championship win for 22 years – well done Gunners, and the Bangkok Post news story ‘Thailand closer to missing […]

Travelling the troubled but beautiful Thailand/Myanmar (Burma) border over the last 40 years In a recent article ‘Who are the farlang YouTubers producing quality videos on Bangkok and Thailand?’, I referred to Karl’s Thailand YouTube videos showing his gruelling one-week trek back in 2018, through jungle terrain in the most remote corner of Thailand, from Sangkhlaburi  […]

Day trip out of Bangkok to Bang Phli’s and Bang Sao Thong’s interesting wats – including the Meringue wat, Thailand’s longest Reclining Buddha, Five Million Baht toilets and more If you are looking for a nice trip out of Bangkok, why not consider a tour of Bang Phli’s and Bang Sao Thong’s wats in the […]

The 7 km queue to Koh Chang’s ferries; and will the planned bridge to the mainland be good or bad for the island’s future? For the recent Friday 1st of May 2026 Labour Day holiday, the Bangkok Post reported “Tourists pack Koh Chang on long holiday – Queues for ferries on Trat mainland stretch up […]

Who are the farlang YouTubers producing quality videos on Bangkok and Thailand? Most of us these days watch a bit of YouTube, don’t we. We all have our favourite subject matters and YouTube content-producers on Bangkok and Thailand. So, who are the decent ones? Here’s a few of mine, in no particular order. Bangkok Pat […]

The sad state of English-language books for sale in Bangkok  Have you been to a Bangkok bookstore recently to buy an English-language book? If you haven’t then let me tell you that unless you want a children’s book, you are going to be severely disappointed. The other day I was in Mega Bangna, killing time […]

Thailand’s and Malaysia’s LOTUS’S (grr!) supermarkets – LOTUS’ surely! In 2021, Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) announced the name change of its Tesco stores in Thailand and Malaysia to Lotus’s . Lotus’s (formerly known as Lotus Supercenter, Tesco Lotus Supercenter and Tesco Lotus) is a retail chain in Thailand founded and operated by […]