Bangkok…before the protests
In December we were supposed to visit Myanmar for work, but a little thing called the SEA Games put paid to that. The South East Asia games are the Commonwealth…
In December we were supposed to visit Myanmar for work, but a little thing called the SEA Games put paid to that. The South East Asia games are the Commonwealth…
In the years we have been here we had never been to the annual That Luang festival – and finally this year we made it and very much enjoyed it.…
With a few days between contracts we headed south to the beach. There are flights from Vientiane & Udon Thani (across the border in Thailand) down to Phuket – so…
Andrew had a brief trip back to NZ for a meeting. On the way there he had a short stopover in Singapore. With a few hours up his sleeve he…
Wrapping up my time in NPT: One weekend I visited a village on the outskirts of town and as you drove out of the city it was like an invisible…
The level of English in the department was not high and I had a translator for 90% of the assignment. Generally the older generation had much lower English skills…