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A quick guide to long distance travel in Thailand. These are the options, benefits and drawbacks for long distance travel in Thailand. While I have used Bangkok as a basis for these journeys (as most travels centre round the Thai capital) the same will be relevant to pretty much anywhere else in Thailand. Travel options […]
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Recently we made the seemingly backward decision to move from our happy home in Bangkok, surrounded by big city conveniences and amazing street food, to live a new life in rural Thailand. We gave up our simple life in Bangkok’s CBD, to find an even simpler life in the rural regions of Northeast Thailand (Isaan).
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Nonthaburi is often referred to as ‘the rural side of Bangkok’, a slightly odd description for a city with over half a million people. Sat next to Bangkok, Nonthaburi is the second largest city in Thailand, but yes it does feel oddly rural, certainly when compared to Bangkok city centre. It is the pace and
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In most hotel write-ups we share the hotel name in the title… but on this occasion we’re being sneaky. With many International Brands, like the Holiday Inn, there comes a preconception “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, right?”. In reality, this couldn’t be further from truth. I felt the same with the Ibis’
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For travel in Northern Thailand I would always recommend Chiang Rai as a base and while Chiang Mai makes the easier option for many travellers I feel it has also lost its old world charm. For many years Chiang Mai has been firmly set in traveller trails and not only has it become increasingly international
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Isaan Tours is currently closed. After nearly two years of blogging at ‘Live Less Ordinary’ we have decided to push forward into new areas of tourism and to follow other passions and interests. We will be doing this through private group tours in rural Thailand (IsaanTours.com) exploring the simple life of Thailand’s Isaan region where
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With no travel plans in the immediate future I decide to travel to Bangkok, staying at a hostel in Asoke, two blocks from where I live now. This was more for research than anything, helping local tourism during troubled times while curious of how the coup and curfew has affected tourists and the tourism industry. Being
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Coming from Northern Ireland I know first hand how political situations can be over exaggerated in international press. Having lived close to 30 years in Northern Ireland, a seemingly war-torn country, I can’t remember once seeing riots, violence or even heated protest. Yet every year over the 12th of July parades in Belfast my entire
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This post is more for encouragement than anything else. As every situation and airport is in no doubt different this is merely to show that you shouldn’t give up. On this occasion we’re running late for a flight from Bangkok’s busy Don Mueang International Airport scheduled for an international flight to Penang Malaysia. Arriving to the
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Normally Captain Hook Resort wouldn’t pass our first selection criteria; skimming through resort names “no, no, no, nope, no, Captain Hook Resort? Definitely no. Sane people don’t travel the world for Peter Pan fun time resorts… but in many ways this works to our favour as Captain Hook Resort proves to be a gem of
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