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147 - Christmas and Solstice

the jones plantation

147 - Christmas and Solstice

🇹🇭 As we approach Christmas and the winter solstice, cooler weather has now reached us down here in Bangkok - it is a rather pleasant 22-32 degrees here daily and it's usually sunny every day. This is certainly the good time to be in Bangkok. Merry Christmas and best

121 - Holiday reading

classic books to read

121 - Holiday reading

🇪🇸 We are nearing the end of our stay here in Mallorca for this year. We still have a while to enjoy here but it begins to feel like "end of term" - can you still remember that? Monday, V and I had an early start. We did another

102 - Year of the Dragon

102 - Year of the Dragon

🇹🇭 Welcome to the Year of the Wood Dragon - 恭喜發財 - Kung Hei Fat Choi. Yet another sunny and warm week here in Bangkok. Over the weekend we had the annual Japan Festival here in town - cosplayers aplenty! Even as the celebrations for Chinese New Year are under way

100 - A century already

100 - A century already

🇹🇭 So already 100 newsletters! When I started writing the newsletters back in December 2021 I had a premonition that things were about to change significantly in the world in general. I wanted to document what I saw going on around me and also to share what wisdom I have and

98 - Ancient City

monopoly capitalists

98 - Ancient City

🇹🇭 We are now full-circle here, back in Bangkok. This is the week that we arrived here last year, having abandoned the nonsense in Hong Kong. With hindsight, that seems to have been a smart move: check Newsletter 96 for our review of 2023. Breaking pattern, V and I decided on

94 - Gradually, then suddenly

94 - Gradually, then suddenly

🇹🇭 V and I have been relaxing around town this week. The weather is still pretty warm, being 35-37 degrees in the afternoon and it does not go below 25 at night but this is certainly preferred to rain and snow of N Europe in the winter. We have been enjoying

86 - Bangkok - settling in

lunatics running the asylum

86 - Bangkok - settling in

🇹🇭 We had a pretty busy and quite productive week. Sunday we got access to our new apartment and after checking it out and determining what V wanted to round it out we went shopping. Being SE Asia you can order what you want and they deliver it and even assemble

76 - Holywood Cafe

76 - Holywood Cafe

🇬🇧 This week we have been around Holywood, Bangor and Belfast. I have also met up with a few friends from school days - some of whom I had not seen for over 40 years! Some, like me are world travellers just taking a sojourn here, among other things, to "

63 - Full circle

63 - Full circle

🇪🇸 This week we have come full-circle - it is one year since we arrived here in Palma for the first time. How has your year been - any new thoughts, insights or realisation? It's interesting to go back and re-read the newsletters from a year ago and compare

53 - It's already March

f william engdhal

53 - It's already March

🇹🇭 We are still enjoying the sunny weather here in Bangkok. It is certainly warm enough and it's great to have that pretty consistent sunrise that lets me sit on our east-facing terrace taking in the first sunshine before it get too hot - reading, playing scrabble and catching