We watched some Muay Thai last night. An Englishman called Poo kicked seven shades of Sunday out of his opponent, finishing him off with several knees to the face. The crowd liked that. And the crowd liked it when the announcer summoned the “lady boxer fighting”. The announcer had a limited grasp of sentence structure, […]

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Its very easy renting badly maintained dirt bikes here. In fact, its pretty hard not to. Every second dwelling advertises bikes for rent, jeeps for rent – Thai massage. And probably they’d rent you an idea of a complete slack, beach-bum existence, let you hold it in your head for a few months, and then

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At least on Derawan, the people claiming to protect turtle eggs are living a dual existence. When asked what they do with the turtle eggs they salvage off the beach, they don’t show you a hatchery, they say that they get good dollar for them. And then you see them boiling some to eat, and

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