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Thailand 2005

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Prologue

In February 2004, I travelled to Thailand for a two week holiday with Martin, an old schoolfriend who has lived just outside Bangkok since October 2001. Twelve months later, I did it again.

Last year I wrote a travel diary, which a great many people seemed to appreciate – Thailand 2004.

I did the same thing in Rome six months later, when I was reunited with Lois Ann, the woman I had fallen for in Thailand – Rome 2004. Things didn’t work out as I had hoped, although we did have a wonderful time. Still, the experience was a little bleak – at least for me – which is why I like to think of this as the “Empire Strikes Back” segment of my travel trilogy – dark and gritty, with some of the best dialogue but no happy ending.

So I guess that by following this analogy, I’m delighted to (finally) present my own “Return of the Jedi Fat Farang”…

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So Many Words

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Still working on a review of the various books, films, albums etc I’ve been consuming lately.

In the meantime, I’ve republished the Thailand 2004 diary from my first trip to the Far East. I’m still working on writing up this year’s trip, tentatively titled “Thailand 2005″. Original, no?

Despite merciless editing, I don’t think it reads as well as the diary from Rome 2004, but it’s included for completion’s sake, and as a source of reference for its forthcoming sequel(!)

I might add a ‘Recent Reading’ block to the sidebar, as I’m getting through novels faster than I can write about them at the moment.

Another project idea which occurred to me, and almost immediately terrified me almost to death, is to catalogue every book I have ever read. Not necessarily with a full review, but with enough information for me to remember which one it was, and maybe a rating system. How would I even begin? It would be an enormous strain, but I’d love to know how many books I’ve read. Can I remember them all?

I’m really talking about novels here, not textbooks or reference manuals, but it would still be an enormous task, and I’ve no idea how I’d build such a thing into WordPress.

Thailand 2004

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In October 2001, my old schoolfriend (and brief college friend) Martin Pavion emigrated from the UK to Thailand. We kept in touch over the internet, and every couple of months he would tell me how great it was out there and how I should go and visit. After almost two years of nagging, I gave up and bought a return flight to Bangkok.

Although I’d already been to several European countries, as well as Canada and the US, I’d never really left the West. The cultural differences and contradictions were fascinating. The country itself was beautiful, and the people incredible.

While I had at first planned to spend the two weeks away from computers, I eventually gave in and wrote a blog entry each day for a previous (and now defunct) website. Here’s an edited compendium for anyone who is interested. Comments I’ve added since the time of writing are marked in square brackets, and emphasised [like this].

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