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I’m heading home

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

After another week in Bangkok for reasons explained at a later time I am heading home. It has been a great trip so far but sometimes you just have to go back to where you come from.

Fortunately, I am going to my home away from home… back to Chiang Mai for a couple of days. The place that helped me recover from the accident and the place I spent 3 interesting weeks. Once again my plan has changed and I have decided to head north again and use Chiang Mai as a planning point for my trip into Laos. I need some time away from the night life and party atmosphere of Thailand and will get some much needed quiet time in Laos. I will be armed with a good book for the long boat journeys on the Mekong River and should be sipping Beer Laos on the banks in Luang Prahbang by next weekend. Laos was one of my pre-trip highlights and I am excited to finally get back into a 3rd world country. Thailand has been fun, don’t get me wrong, but I could be doing what I am doing here at home.

I’ll check in before I head into Laos. Till then…

Beer & Pizza Review #5

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I’m back with another beer and pizza review.

BEER: THAILAND

Lots of choices here in Thailand so I will stick with the main ones. Heineken is the largest import. You can get Stella Artois, Budweiser, Corona and other imports just about anywhere.

Chang: The cheapest and most widespread beer in Thailand and easily the worst. It is the beer with the highest alcohol content in Thailand. They even coined the term for the day after a binge of Chang Beer… a Changover. If you have very little money and you are concerned about beer costs, this is your beer.

Singha: My beer of choice, aside from Heineken, while in Thailand. It has a sweet flavor which gives it a little more taste then all the others and isn’t as heavy as Heineken. They serve Singha Light which is the only light beer I have been able to find while traveling.

Leo: I only tried Leo once and it was rather warm so I can’t give a fair judgment other than that I don’t see too many people drinking it. It is another locally brewed beer.

PIZZA: THAILAND

I finally hit a country that actually knows how to do pizza at least close to home.

In Chiang Mai it was a guest house named “Same Same” inside the old city walls with a small pizza vendor that served 10″ pies just the way I like them, thin and with good bread. Also in Chiang Mai outside a night club was the first “pizza-by-the-slice” vendor so I grabbed one of those and it was a nice change from the personal pies that you usually get.

In Pattaya at the Royal Garden Plaza there is a food court on the top level that also had excellent pizza-by-the-slice. Parmesan cheese had been rare up till this point but luckily they had both cheese and crushed red pepper. Finally!

I actually haven’t had any non-chain pizza in Bangkok so I have no review of pizza here but if I do before I leave I will update.

Songkran – Thai New Year

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
So my days in Pattaya are over. With the end of Songkran also comes my return to Bangkok to start putting serious consideration into the final portion of my trip. I don't know if I will make it ... [Continue reading this entry]

Kaosan Tuk Tuk drivers are annoying

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
I have rarely lost my temper with locals during any of my travels so far. In fact, today I was a bit shocked and disappointed in hearing a farang (foreigner in Thai) argue with the hotel staff at the ... [Continue reading this entry]

A little R&R

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
So I left Bangkok for the quieter vibe of Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. I decided to fly simply because a 12 hour bus ride was not what the doctor ordered for my already travel- depressed self. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Banged up in Bangkok

Monday, March 5th, 2007
I arrived in Bangkok last night. I wish I could say my excitement level was high but it just isn't. I stayed in the Sukhumvit Road area which is more of an ex-patriot and seedy part of the ... [Continue reading this entry]