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Dave Says:

Prachuap Khiri Khan has the following attributes:

1) Its half way down the Thai coast

2) It has a Wat on a cliff surounded one side by the ocean and three sides by monkeys

3) It’s on a direct bus route from Bangkok but then to nowhere else

4) On a hot hot Februray day it has a total population of about 27,700 Thais, and 10 westerners of which 2 of those westerners were wondering where they were and how they got there.
Our guide book informed us of attribute one, hinted at attribute two, stated the first half but neglected to mention anything about the second half of attribute three which led wholey to attribute four (well the last bit anyway - I doubt it had anything to do with the Thai population). (more…)

Sarah composes:
Oh, squat toilet, how you do taunt me so.

Still shocking, after all this time, every time I nudge open the bathroom door

To see you there, low and resembling more closely a hole in the ground.

Sometimes you are a hole in the ground.

It pains me to admit to you that in this position it’s more comfortable to………go.

But your footpads are always wet and provide no traction.

Why must my feet be so close to the action, anyway?

Impossible to balance without touching the wall but sometimes there is no sink at all, to wash away the germs.

But I’m tougher than you think, oh glaring squat toilet.

You will not break me, I’ve conquered harder.

And though I know it’s not ideal and I’m not a defender or a lover,

I will gladly leave your draconian gape for the land of hover or seat cover.

Dave Says:

There now follows a bunch of random mind wanderings concerning but perhaps not limited to my experiences in the country of Thailand. Although not by any means an authority on the country or its people, I shall attempt to write in a style that supposes I know more than I do. (more…)

Dave Says:

The deep, what mysteries does it hold in it’s really deep depths? Wet, it’s so very wet and salty too but somehow familiarly strange and demanding in it’s unforgiving inability to allow us to breath underwater. I, Captain Dave led team Lukacs Browne on an underwater adventure that can only be described as adventurous and wet. (more…)