Archive for September 2011
Traveling the World – How To Travel Around the World
That’s where it starts you know. I just wanted to travel for a year and “get it out of my system”, settle down, get a job, build a career… Well there is some good and bad news – the good news is that taking the year off to travel is not that hard. The bad…
Read MoreCheap Flights to Koh Samui: Do Cheap Samui Flights Exist?
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! So you are little frustrated about the prices you’ve found for flights to Ko Samui? I’m not surprised, the route has very little competition on it, and until recently the ONLY airline that flew the route was Bangkok Airways -…
Read MoreThailand Prepaid Internet: Prepaid SIM Card for Thailand Visitors
OK – so you are planning to travel to Thailand and you want to stay in contact with the peeps back home. In today’s inter-connected world you may be just assuming that your smart phone/ iPad /netbook will just WORK. Well – yes it probably will – at a price. Not working out how you want…
Read MoreWhere to Stay in Phuket?
Choosing where to stay in Phuket is tricky, its a large island , with at least six very developed tourist beaches, and plenty of less well-known beaches to chose from. Alternatively you can stay inland in Phuket City or semi-rural areas such as Chalong. So there is no real one answer fits all answer to…
Read MorePhuket, Kata Beach: Tips, Tricks and Highlights
On our recent trip to Thailand we spent a few days staying in Kata Beach, one of Phuket’s famous beach resorts. One of the frustrating things about trying to research popular beach resorts in Thailand is all you will find is result after result written by the marketing department of a resort or tourist authority. This…
Read MoreCape Panwa, Phuket: Trip Report From Thailand
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! Now I just got back from a few days in Cape Panwa, located in southern Phuket. Its a little off the beaten track of the “big” Phuket tourist beaches of Patong, Kata and Karon, so I thought I might give…
Read MoreTrips to Thailand – Why Do People Travel Again and Again To Thailand?
I just got back from what was, after I counted it up, my fifth trip to Thailand. I’m not alone – many tourists take multiple trips to Thailand, but what is it that draw people back to the “Land of Smiles” again again? Well this is what brings me back over and over again: maybe…
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