B.P. Grand Suite Hotel Songkhla

... any durian trees instead I found Petai or stinking beans (Parkia speciosa). A very popular legume selling in bundles in southern Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. The seeds are found in the pod and usually cook with sambal chilli. I love it but I have stopped it because of my gout problem ...

... transferred to another van and driver (along with all the other Thai passengers). Confused, we asked the driver, who spoke no English, where he was taking us, who much to our surprise told us Singapore! As we could not communicate with our driver, and with out many other options we decided we may as well ride it out as far as the border with them find our own way back from there. We weren't taken to Singapore or even as far ...

... friend whom I met seven years ago in Peru and with whom I've kept contact all the time. Inge is retired and has bought a yacht several years ago and invited me to visit him on his yacht in Langkawi in Malaysia. And that of course, is hard to say no to. I took a ferry to Kuah on Langkawi and Inge was already waiting for me. He just was getting better from having diarrhoea for a long time. His yacht was really beautiful and was anchored in the bay of Kuah, so we ...

Charmaine, like many of her fellow Filipino's , teach English (TEFL) to Thai youth here at the Woranari Chaolem School in Songkhla,Thailand...just a few blocks from her home. (Heck of a commute once we are married eh?).... Today Charmaine brought her "AMboy" (American Boyfriend) to school to help teach some music and answer some general questions. I had a blast! ( you know me...just give me a stage and an ...

... did teach me the traditional way Filippino's eat...spoon in right hand fork in left...fork pushes food onto the spoon. Jovy let me know that they will use just there hands for informal gatherings like a picnic. Well after supper....Charmaine let me have a Thai beer. I normally dont't drink beer (Vodka Martini...Crown Royal.....) so it's een a while ...

... and she tells us first to come back January 3rd. Yea right, then she tells us the main office is closed and we have to come back tomorrow. I started to get a little overwhelmed at this point. I hadn't eaten since breakfast yesterday and my backpack was digging into my sunburnt shoulders. I try to keep my composure and tell her this is an emergency. I have no money and I have to get a train back to Bangkok. She calls again and says that they ...

... to scare you mom! Instead, he takes me past an old tractor behind the wooden house and tells me about the mining operation -- which to me just looks like a big pit and some rusty equipment. Just like the pit of honey and the John Deere back home on the farm. "Look here," he says, pointing at the piles of dirt next to the hole. "What you do is dig dirt out of an area where you think the sapphires are. Over there is a washing plant. All the small stuff goes inside the ...

... fan. Hat Yai isn't a tourist haunt. There's little to see. I doubt anyone stays more than a day, unless they're Chinese. There is a huge Chinese influence here, in the market stalls, spartan hotels, beauty salons, pharmacies, and shark-fin emporia. A large rat with a broken leg slinks into the Indian restaurant while I'm waiting for my foodat but no one shows much concern.

... to stay. We get off to be bombarded by taxi drivers in our face, "Hey where you go?" When one was too much we tried to walk away, and that guy yelled at the ones we're walking to in thai, something of the equiv. "Hey don't give them a deal, they're ****ed, so let's take em for what they've got!" It escalated and the taxi drivers even threatened a girl who was trying to help us that spoke thai and english and was informing us what they were saying. Madness. Then we ...

... vat** (opa) wohnen mit im haus, und oma hat die ganze zeit den 28Tage alten scheiss** auf dem arm gehabt ;-)) tja und dann hat es mit d** kommunikation doch irgendwie nicht geklappt, denn als ich ins hotel eingecheckt habe, sollte die bande eigentlich unten warten, ab** irgendwie waren alle weg, als ich dann wied** vor d** tu** stand. naja bin ich halt alleine in die kneipe mein** wahl und hab mich ein bisschen von thailaendisch** gitarrenmusik b**ieseln lassen. haben sogar ein ...