As promised last week I attached some pictures. The smaller ones down on the left side become bigger when you click on "full entry" [View Full Entry]

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After 54 days travelling back home again. Getting used to normal life. This kind of trip has been made by people you meet. I remember still a lot of people I did not write about in the blog : - Like the dutch businessman in Thailand I met , living in Changmai, coming 15 years ago for 3 months to Thailand and stayed. Has a wholesale organisation for restaurants in the North of Thailand. Helped a dutch company out 12 years ago who thought to be able to change lifestyle in Thailand. Thais eat outside and hardly at home. This company [View Full Entry]

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My trip to Singapore took over 500 hours train. Back a bit shorter. 2 hours SP/ BK and 11,5 hours BK/Amsterdam. Last night I boarded the flight CI065 and because I still had still some points to spent I flew decadently , compared to all the simple trains, in the businessclass. A bit confusing, too fast , too luxurious. Plane was not full as is usual these days. Businessclass not even half full incl 2 english guys, about 50 years old, rather drunk from the free cognacs in the China airlines lounge and one of them almost 100% tatooed. He showed [View Full Entry]

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To celibrate the birth of my grandson I had a beer last night after the flight from Singapore. Do you sleep alone tonight is the question mostly asked between 1 and 2 o clock in the morning by the ladies in the bars. I was talking with Ann in Check Inn 99 at Sukumvit. Around 1.45 she asked me. I told her Yes Ann I m sleeping alone. Why? She asked me. I like to sleep with you. No Ann I ll keep you awake by snoring. I ve a terrible snore. Everything start moving by that noice. I love snoring [View Full Entry]

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I write this entry in Bangkok for I have been too short in Singapore to find a computer. Due to the fact that I became this day, June 12th , grandfather again I ll go home a bit earlier than planned. It s a grandson and like the father, my youngest son not so serious in planning for he entered this world about 5 weeks too early. Probably wondering how it is around here. So I had to change my schedule. Went to Butterworth station at 5.30 in the morning to change my train tickets what took about 45 minutes. It [View Full Entry]

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Entering Malaysia from the Thai side it looks a bit different. A bit more organized. All the way to Kuala Lumpur green surroundings, lots of ricefields rather well kept, lots of Palms and really lots. These palms are used for Palm oil. They are building up the railway to doubletrack what probably will still gives a few years work to many people. Approaching KL there are quite a few new stations and they look like a serial of exactly the same built. In the trains they use a lot of airco and I found out that first class is even colder [View Full Entry]

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In Georgetown I found a street with all butchers. One had as speciallity Goatsheads but not on display. The other butchers had pigs hanging in the frontdoors. Just without any cooling. Wonder who is eating them for it s not a delicacy for Moslims or Budhists and I can hardly believe it s for the Roman Catholics for than they have to eat a lot. This system with all shops of one kind of business all together in one street is common here. There is also a street with jewelers. Georgetown is another Unesco world heritage site and the last I [View Full Entry]

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Have been walking around Georgetown today. Had just a tour and explanation around the biggest local mosque. One of the muslims saw me wondering if I could take pictures or not and he invited me on a tour. His father just had died , 40 days ago, and he had cooked all afternoon for a meal for several hundred of people who came to the mosque later. Its great how good the Malaysian speak english. The older often even better than the younger for in the past I think untill the 60th english was language nr 1 and since than nr [View Full Entry]

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Monday evening I had dinner in London Pub. Lot of foreigners and of course also Thai. I talked during dinner with Noi who had a quick bite before working again. Noi owns a small bar on the opposite side of Sukkumvit Soi Cowboy. Noi told the way she lost her lover. His name was John, not too young and english. They fall in love. John worked for the UN and had to be for his job half a year in one of the new republics of old Yugoslavia. He took Noi with him. After that half year he decided a long [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday evening sitting in the bar of Gulliver a place where you can eat and drink and also visited by lots of ladies of the night waiting for a better future I talked with Nan. Nan comes from the North east part of Thailand near the Cambodian border. We talked about food. I like thai food ,the spicier the better Nan told me she can cook very good and her speciality is rat. If I liked rat? No Nan I don t like to eat rat. She understood for I was thinking of course about the black dirty rats in Bangkok. [View Full Entry]

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