Sometimes it’s good to get away and recoup. I used to do that at Maranatha in Janda Baik previously, but this year, Eddy and I decided to visit the Seven Fountains Retreat in Chiang Mai. A Catholic retreat in the Ignition tradition, just like Maranatha in Janda Baik, this is a retreat centre in the […]
Tag: Thailand
Back to Bangkok.
Recently, Eddy and I had a brief stint back to Bangkok for a friend’s wedding. The last time we were there was probably more than ten years ago, but the diesel fumes made Eddy very ill (and me somewhat under the weather also). This time, the air on the streets looked clear and that kind […]
Bangkok in my nose
I just got back from Bangkok, and boy, was it polluted, unlike my last visit about two years ago. Anyway, the trip to the LRT station, and from KL Sentral to the LCCT and from the LCCT to Bangkok were all smooth. The new airport at Bangkok was also pretty amazing, very brutalist architecture and […]
Detour – Thailand 05
I had great plans for a wonderful blog on Thailand, when I discovered I was to go earlier this year. It has been ages since I visited there: I was nine the last time I was in Bangkok, and I was fifteen the last time I was in Hat Yai. I hadn’t been to anywhere […]