Alternative ideas for working and living away

I am going to start a section soon on Working Nomad which will be aimed at looking at other ways of working from anywhere. I have a few ideas already but would appreciate any comments and ideas relating to this. I realise that not everyone who would like to work and be overseas has the … Read more

Back in business mode

Hello from the Petronas Twin Towers here in KL. I am back in my favourite China Town hotel and hanging out at KLCC complex where I am back on free wifi access. I am so easily pleased these days! I am probably going to be here all week as there is lots of work I … Read more

A taste of the high life (in baggy trousers)

I am sitting in one of the maddest thunder storms in Bangkok as I write this and looking forward to flying tomorrow to KL and getting back down to some serious work. I have not done much work this week as I have been seeing off various friends and doing a bit of partying here. … Read more

Back in Bangkok

Not much to report at the moment on the travel or websites front. I am back in this crazy city to meet up with a couple of people who I travelled with before so I am just hanging out with them at the moment. It is very hot in Bangkok as April appears to be … Read more

Earnings and budget report for March and thinking big

OK I know I said that March was not looking like a record month. Well it was in the end! The first two weeks saw me well down due to a collapse in visitors to a couple of my big earners. For some reason unknown to me things went crazy in the last week with … Read more

Phi Phi Islands re-visited

Yesterday we spent the day on a boat snorkelling off the Island of Ko Phi Phi and a few hours onshore. Phi Phi is notorious for the film ‘The Beach’ and of course the devastating 2004 tsunami that swept much of it away. I visited Phi Phi two years before the events of Boxing Day … Read more

Things I would have done differently?

I have arrived on Ko Lanta, Southern Thailand to find a very relaxed and peaceful Island. The Thai people here are slightly different to the majority as they are Muslim (normally Buddhist). I have to say they are some of the friendliest Thais I have met and their smiles are very much of the genuine … Read more