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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...
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by Jonathan Look | Jul 3, 2014 | Hotel Review, Thailand, Travel
While I have been traveling on my retirement adventures in Asia my nights’ accommodations have varied from hard seats on overnight trains and buses, straw mats in shared rooms, to other places that I would call distinctly middle range. Many have been quite nice and I...
