by Tony in Thailand | Mar 12, 2019 | Attractions and Places – Isaan
A day in Loei 10 March 2019 Peng my stepdaughter, had yet another entrance exam to sit, this time held in Loei the province next to ours heading west (left on a map). As Peng’s exam was early morning (well early for me) on the Sunday at Loei Rajabhat University...
by Tony in Thailand | Jul 8, 2018 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
As Thai/western spelling is based on phonetics, meaning how a Thai word sounds in English, you can end up with lots of different variations for the same thing, all of which are basically correct. It is why search for places in Thailand using a GPS can be frustrating...
by Tony in Thailand | May 22, 2018 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Thailand Tropical Garden
My Nikon D5100 camera packed it in a couple of weeks ago and I have been making do with my wife Gaun’s small Canon and an old Olympus ever since. You always take good equipment for granted until you have to revert to what you were using before, which seemed fine...
by Tony in Thailand | Sep 16, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
That is a bit of a misleading heading because I will only report on those temples that we have personally visited and get my tick of approval. These are mainly in the area close to where we live, which is in the northern part of Isaan, and therefore they obviously...
by Tony in Thailand | Aug 27, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
I can’t believe that having told you in yesterday’s post that you can find HERE, that I had run out of new things to write about I am sharing the discovery of two wonderful timber wats just down the road from us a day later. Both of them are hidden away...
by Tony in Thailand | Aug 26, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
I have had a number of readers write to me asking if things were OK as I haven’t updated the blog with new entries for a while. This has been the result of a number of factors. My stepdaughter Peng has an operation recently, which I wrote about HERE, and we have...
by Tony in Thailand | Jun 13, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Living in Isaan, Wat/temple
Yesterday I had the urge to go for an explore and I picked out two wats (temples) to visit about an hour’s drive from our home in Si Bun Ruang. Having now seen both of them (and one we didn’t plan on seeing) they stand out a little from...
by Tony in Thailand | Jun 6, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
This is the second post relating to a family day out in Loei province close to our home in Si Bun Ruang. The first post titled “A Day with the Thai Army” can be found HERE. Having farewelled Game (Gaun’s nephew) and seen him back with his army mates...
by Tony in Thailand | May 13, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Living in Isaan
The 12th of May is my wife’s birthday (Gaun), which in itself isn’t of particular interest to anyone outside our family, but each year I try to organise something different to do that breaks routine and our day yesterday was no different. I hope...
by Tony in Thailand | May 11, 2017 | Attractions and Places – Isaan, Wat/temple
This is a very long post so settle in for a good read. We recently had a friend from Canberra (Phillip) visit us for a few days and I planned a roadtrip to shown him a few of the sights away from our home base. The timing was perfect because we had bought a new pickup...
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