From what I can tell, crisp sandwiches are a British invention. They don’t seem to have caught on with the rest of the world, but I’d like to take a minute to sing their praises. In case you’re wondering what crisps are, the Americans call them chips. In my mind, nothing completes a sandwich better than crisps. There have been …

I wanted to wire some money from my Bangkok Bank account to one of my accounts in the UK. I’d been meaning to do this for a while, so I finally got round to looking into it during my last trip to Bangkok. The MBK branch where I opened my account told me to go to the Siam branch, who …

Today is Christmas day and I find myself in the middle of nowhere in the French countryside. It’s freezing cold and about 9 am as I write this. This year, I’ve been in Phuket, Bangkok, Bali, East Timor, England, Singapore and France. It has been a good year in many ways, but it’s had its ups and downs. I hope …

I had no idea how I was going to feel setting foot on land in my home country. It was the first time I’d been in England for about four years. I touched down in London at about 7 am last Tuesday. The first thing I noticed was the cold. I’d bought myself a coat from Castro in Bangkok the …

I have been in England for the past few days and will be in France from next Monday. Updates here will likely be few and far between because I don't have much time to use the Internet. I'm on holiday, after all. One thing I will say is that I've been extremely cold here in the UK. I've also been …

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