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Blazing Saddles: Cycling to 70
Blazing Saddles: Cycling to 70
I have in my hand a slightly dog-eared, black and white photo of a smiling three-year-old me looking optimistically into the camera. I am sitting among blooming flowers in the back garden of the house in which I grew up in the English Midlands. Just out of frame is my first bicycle, red and yellow with a bashed mudguard. It seems that even at this tender age I’d already mas­tered the noble art of riding into things.
Bicycling with an Angle: The great outdoors with two wheels and a collapsible rod
Bicycling with an Angle: The great outdoors with two wheels and a collapsible rod
My passion for cycling arrived at about the same time as my passion for trout fishing, when I was a slip of a lad of 10 summers or so. I was lucky enough to find myself growing up in a family of keen anglers and spent many happy boyhood hours with my grandfather, father and sundry Scottish uncles trying to entice trout onto the end of a line and subsequently into a frying pan.
A Meal with Bart Duijkers
A Meal with Bart Duijkers
Bart Duijkers is one of Phuket’s best-known hoteliers, restaurateurs, developers and entrepreneurs with extensive experience in all these sectors in Phuket dating back from his arrival here in 1989. He recently took over the highly successful 9th Floor Restaurant on the top of the Condotel building off Rat-U-Thit Rd in the heart of Patong.
How to Love October: ‘Feastival of Indulgence’ at The Boathouse
How to Love October: ‘Feastival of Indulgence’ at The Boathouse
It’s 7am on a dark, drizzling London morn. I scurry, beetle-like, head bowed, through the traffic to the tube station. Jammed into the narrow confines of the hurtling cylinder on the Piccadilly Line my bleary eye catches sight of an advertisement.
Life Cycling: The health benefits of a good pedalling
Life Cycling: The health benefits of a good pedalling
Phuket is one of the globe’s most desirable retirement havens drawing thousands of retirees to its sandy shores. In addition, demographic data indicates that Thailand is now a rapidly ageing society with 23% of the populace already over the age of 55.
Paradise Postponed: Franck de Lestapis at Pimalai Resort Koh Lanta
Paradise Postponed: Franck de Lestapis at Pimalai Resort Koh Lanta
Comfortably seated within his hilltop eerie at the magnificent Seven Seas restaurant atop luxurious Pimalai Resort, Franck de Lestapis, the jovial General Manager, surveys the fiefdom spread gloriously around him. It is undoubtedly an idyllic spot from which to assess where Koh Lanta is heading, an island that Franck most certainly knows and loves.
Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists
Our Jungle Camp - Thai youngsters turn environmentalists
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Thailand ranked sixth overall in the global league table of plastic polluters... that’s not pro-rated to population. Thailand is in fact the twentieth most populated country on earth, so that makesThailand’s populace world-class polluters. They pollute far above their numbers, they throw away more garbage per person than almost any other nation.
A Breath of Fresh Air. Oxygenated ride along the pine beach.
A Breath of Fresh Air. Oxygenated ride along the pine beach.
The so-called Green Season is upon us in Phuket, a marketer’s name for the rainy season if ever I heard one! Do those marketing Johnnies really think that by not mentioning the dreaded words “rainy, monsoon, wet” and so on that they can fool everyone into believing that we don’t get just the occasional drenching at this time of year?
A Canter Around Lanta
A Canter Around Lanta
Koh Lanta is about four hours’ drive south from the bridge off Phuket and when I first visited the island back in 2004, just before the tsunami, I described it as “Paradise Postponed” in several articles I wrote.
Blazing Saddles: Riding in Hat Thai Mueang National Park is like stepping back in time
Blazing Saddles: Riding in Hat Thai Mueang National Park is like stepping back in time
I am by no means original in my thoughts regarding the ability to travel through time on a bicycle. The Victorian novelist HG Wells was a tremendous bicycle lover to whom the quote, “Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race” is often attributed.
The Boathouse is Phuket's quintessential sunset dining destination
The Boathouse is Phuket's quintessential sunset dining destination
Sunset! It’s one of the most primal of our daily experiences and yet so often missed or taken for granted. In the hurly-burly of our modern time-stressed lives, how often do we take the time to calmly sit, stare and fully immerse ourselves in this most beautiful part of simply being alive?
Take a bow Mai Khao! Northwest Phuket delivers natural charm, serene cycling scenery
Take a bow Mai Khao! Northwest Phuket delivers natural charm, serene cycling scenery
The Mai Khao region in Phuket’s northwest has long been home to breeding Andaman sea turtles, plus an abundance of other species of flora and fauna, although “Homo Touristicus” remained noticeable by its absence until just a few years ago.
The Fat Chef and the art of eating
The Fat Chef and the art of eating
Setting off to review a new Phuket restaurant named The Fat Chef it’s doubtless a cliché to entertain images of a large, smiling, rotund man in a toque, perhaps gaily waving a skillet, in one’s mind.
The sky’s the limit at Cape Sienna's newly refurbished rooftop restaurants
The sky’s the limit at Cape Sienna's newly refurbished rooftop restaurants
The Cape Sienna Hotel and Villas stands proudly on a magnificent hillside commanding sweeping views across Kamala Beach to the opposite, northern headland, with the full verdant amphitheatre of Phuket’s central massif spread out to the east and the dazzling Andaman Sea to the west.
D.O.C.G restaurant takes its name from the official mark of Italian authenticity
D.O.C.G restaurant takes its name from the official mark of Italian authenticity
Phuket Marriott Resort & Spa, Merlin Beach opened its welcoming portals in December 2016, yet has already become firmly established as a major player among Phuket’s 5-star havens.
A writer's life in the island fast lane
A writer's life in the island fast lane
How many octogenarians living in Phuket gained their Doctorate degree from London University studying the works of the great Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and have just published a book about their adventures living in Phuket?
The SIS Kata serves up sensory delights at Twilight Sky restaurant
The SIS Kata serves up sensory delights at Twilight Sky restaurant
One of the most gorgeous, unspoilt corners of Phuket is the headland overlooking Kata Beach, with verdantly magical Poo (Crab) Island dancing in the bay and the pristine sands of Kata Noi Beach to the south.
Blazing Saddles: How to make some solid cycling resolutions for 2018
Blazing Saddles: How to make some solid cycling resolutions for 2018
Making, and often immediately breaking, New Year’s resolutions is an age-old tradition all over the world as we pass from one year into the next.
Dining ‘al fresco’ at Rim Talay is the perfect way to savour some fresh seafood
Dining ‘al fresco’ at Rim Talay is the perfect way to savour some fresh seafood
Sitting within earshot of the susurrating waves in the elegant sala of the Amari Phuket’s Rim Talay restaurant overlooking the dancing lights across Patong Bay, I had a startling insight.
Blazing Saddles: Wheel around to the Coffee Cycle
Blazing Saddles: Wheel around to the Coffee Cycle
Sitting in the lovely little cafe called Coffee Cycle, in the strangely-named Click Plaza, just off the Chalong Pier Road, as I am right now while writing this, you could be forgiven for thinking you’d found the perfect cyclists’ breakfasting spot in all of Phuket.
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