Swadee Kap- Just back into the bustling city of Bangkok(now 15 mill. and growing!) - from the "hella long" road trip thru the countryside of S. Thailand. Kinda' like' "The fruitbasket of Asia"- very much like California as lots of crops everywhere- of course all tropical. Never got the chance to eat soooo many various tropical fruits: Mangostein...

I was just having supper after having visited the might market, that blessed place of all kinck-knackery, and had an unexpected conversation. As I was paying for my padthai, my very attractive waitress says to me in broken english "you are handsome". I ask again, and am a bit embarrassed when I understood what she actually said. Flustered, I loo...

We stayed in Trang for one night only, we had planned on two but within a few hours we had covered the towns hotspots. Or rather, hotspot, there was just the one, a second hand bookshop. No more than a local town for local people, we spotted only one other tourist. Our hostel was pleasant enough, an old converted shophouse. The manager, gave us ...