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by Jonathan Look | Jul 17, 2014 | Retirement, Thailand, Travel
Exterior of Bangkok Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand Today I checked into the newly opened Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, Thailand for some minor day surgery. I don’t normally like talking about medical conditions, but several years ago I found a small bump, about the...
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by Sarah Wilson | Jul 15, 2014 | Adventure, Thailand, Travel
I love Thai massage, no not that happy ending kind of massage but the fabulous traditional, sometimes painful, slightly tortuous massage that’s like doing yoga but without the effort. I never need much of an excuse to have a massage, oh look I have an hour free...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 15, 2014 | Adventure, Myanmar, Retirement, Travel
I had mixed feelings about going to Ngapali Beach on the west coast of Myanmar. The guidebooks said that it was the most popular beach in Burma and I am not a big fan of busy. I had talked to people, that hadn’t been there, that said it was crowded and overpriced so...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 10, 2014 | People, Photography, Travel, Vietnam
This street scene, from when I was on my little adventure in Hoi An, Vietnam, just intrigued me. I found it compelling with a number of elements but I couldn’t figure out a graceful way to combine them all into one cohesive photograph. There was the wall, with the...
by Jonathan Look | Jul 9, 2014 | Buddhism, Buildings, People, Photography, Thailand, Travel
Fifteen kilometers from Chiang Mai, Thailand is one of the country’s most sacred temples, Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, usually known simply as Doi Suthep, a name it shares with the 1,676-meter tall granite mountain that the temple towers over the city from. At night the...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 8, 2014 | Hotel Review, Thailand, Travel
When the 5 Star Riverfront Peninsula Hotel in Bangkok offered to host us after our 10-mile run as part of the ultra-luxury heaven in our “Heaven and Hell” weekend Sarah and I were very excited. In the past, most of our retirement adventures have been in great to...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 6, 2014 | Food, Street Food, Thailand, Travel
I love my street food and that goes doubly so for sausage and Chiang Mai, Thailand is famous for many things, one of them being Sai ua, or simply in English – Chiang Mai Sausage. Sai ua is grilled pork sausage and it is a typical food of the Northern provinces and...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 5, 2014 | Bhutan, People, Photography, Travel
Jakar Dzong (Temple) in central Bhutan, is situated high on a ridge above Jakar village in the Chamkhar valley in the Bumthang District. Built in the mid-16th Century it still very much a working Dzong. Normally you aren’t allowed to photograph inside the sacred...
