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Blazing Paddles: Strokin’ in Phuket
Phuket Life
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Yes, you read correctly, it’s not a typo. This week Blazing Saddles is taking to the water, which as we live on an island surrounded by the stuff, isn’t very difficult to do.
A Meal With… ‘‘Mister Koh Lanta’
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Based in Bangkok and still with one foot in the high (blood)-pressured world of advertising, I started pursuing my retirement dream of becoming a travel writer in 2004 by freelancing for John Everingham’s iconic Art Asia Press and The Greater Phuket Magazine. December of that year saw me on an assignment to a magical realm called Koh Lanta, where John said I should get in touch with a fellow named Duane Lennie… who he described as “Mister Koh Lanta” and who was reputed to know everything there was to know about this fabled isle.
Blazing Saddles: Life’s a Beach… so just grab it!
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Over 71% of our planet is covered with water and we ourselves are comprised of over 60% of the stuff! In addition, science has discovered that proximity to water is absolutely fundamental to our to our well-being and even our very happiness is absolutely dependent on it.
A Meal With… Benny at ‘Benny’s’
Phuket Life
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Community
Welcoming bolt-holes in which to hunker down, cheering glass in hand, and enjoy tasty, mood-boosting cuisine within a buzzy, sociable environment are undoubtedly a major way in which to tackle the travails that menace us all in these harried times.
Bathing Saddles: To the water borne
Phuket Life
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Community
Boris Johnson is thinking of asking British doctors to issue prescriptions to their patients to go cycling in order to combat the huge wave of obesity and diabetes which is sweeping Britain, which of course also increases the susceptibility and severity of falling foul to COVID-19. Maybe this is not a bad plan in a nation which has opened up thousands of kilometres of dedicated cycling and walking paths through lovely, beguiling countryside and is now planning significant future investment in separated cycle paths and lanes, plus training courses in safe cycling.
A Meal with… Mister Wellness
Phuket Life
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Inspiration and optimism may be two elements of ‘normal’ Phuket life which are in short supply right now. While there are positives to the lack of international tourists on the island such as quieter, less dangerous roads, cleaner air, empty beaches and a general pace of life which harks back to a quieter, gentler time, there’s no doubt that many island residents are suffering.
A Meal with… Mindfulness
Phuket Life
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Community
We live in times which would try the equanimity of the most well-balanced and centred human being, which in all honesty, I probably am not. So, I decided to catch up with an old friend, Spiritual Counsellor and Mindfulness Coach, Tobi Warzinek at one of the full-day mindfulness retreats he runs through his Dharana Meditation Center.
Blazing Saddles: A Wild and Crazy Ride
Phuket Life
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Travel
We live in the wild and crazy times and there’s little doubt that the wild ride which humanity is currently experiencing is going to get more severe, unpredictable and shocking. It’s not just the horrible reality of COVID-19 and the economic apocalypse it has unleashed which haunts us, but also the unending deluge of media overload which permeates our every waking moment.
A Meal With… Russell Distance Russell
Phuket Life
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Community
We live in very unusual times and so I thought I would have supper with a Phuket resident who boasts one of the most unusual occupations on the island.
Blazing Saddles: Bikes ’n’ Beaches
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The morning of Tuesday, June 9 dawned with celestial pools of limpid blue sky interspersed with scudding rain clouds roiling around above the Big Buddha atop the Nakkerd Hills. But as we had been locked-in and disbarred from visiting any of Phuket’s glorious beaches for over two months, we were hell-bent on getting on our bikes and cycling to Nai Harn Beach, whatever the Gods of Monsoonal Chaos were conspiring to do with the weather.
Blazing Saddles: A breath of fresh air
Phuket Life
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Community
Many of us have been gob-smacked by graphic images showing the dense air pollution disappearing all over the world, as we humans were forced into lockdown in an attempt to curtail COVID-19’s relentless march across our planet.
A Meal With… Craig Burton, putting diet facts on the table
Phuket Life
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Dining
When I first started writing this “A Meal with…” column over three years ago, little did I anticipate one day finding myself sitting a well-measured two-plus metres away from my subject, with both of us wearing face masks. However, as what is colloquially termed the ‘Chinese Curse’ has it, we are indeed ‘living in interesting times’ and so we now find ourselves in all sorts of strange situations, doing all sorts of things we never imagined we would.
Blazing Saddles: Let cycling conquer the COVID blues
Phuket Life
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Community
We’ve been virally attacked and brought to our collective knees not just by a simple strand of RNA which wants to invade our cells so that it can reproduce, but by an unrelenting deluge of terrifying media information and misinformation. Both are threatening the very organic security, not to mention the collective sanity, of Homo Sapiens, and both are the product of the world which our choices and behaviours have created with all their arrogant disrespect for the miraculous natural systems which sustain us.
A Meal With: Fine dining gone viral
Phuket Life
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Dining
To say that we live in challenging times is a bit like saying Donald Trump may not be the smartest kid on the block – a huge understatement. The COVID-19 viral crisis has exploded with unprecedented speed and venom hitting every aspect of Phuket life, none more so than the all-important tourist industry and within that our once- thriving fine dining sector.
Blazing Saddles: Bicycling breakfast
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Bicycling and breakfast go irrevocably together… they are made for each other in a mutually-enhancing way. My own perfect Phuket morning starts with firstly earning that health-giving breakfast with an invigorating bike ride. My criteria for a pre-breakfast ride includes deep breaths of pure clean air, huge gulps of reviving water and fabulous ocean and mountain views, all of which help produce a natural hunger for a nourishing, protein-laced breakfast to restore body and brain.
A Meal With: Optimism 101 – The delights of the Nai Harn Resort
Phuket Life
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Dining
Driving over to Nai Harn Beach to have lunch with Frank Grassmann, the friendly General Manager of the iconic Nai Harn resort which sits on a verdant hillside proudly overlooking those wondrous southern Phuket sands, I made a mistake!
Blazing Saddles: Cycling with Coconuts
Phuket Life
I occasionally make the mistake of interrupting my tropical island idyll by tuning into BBC World Service over breakfast of a morning. It was on a cloudy day last week when I arose and, casting about for diversion, spotted my long-neglected TV brooding quietly in its corner. I approached it gingerly, dusted it off and flicked its waiting “on” switch, thereby allowing it to bring the outside world, also known as ‘reality’, into my living room.
A Meal With: Marc Landgraf Cluster General Manager of Paradise and TreeHouse Resorts on Koh Yao Noi
Phuket Life
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People
In a region of the planet renowned for hyperbole and exaggeration, it is refreshing to be seated in a lovely beachside restaurant at the Paradise and TreeHouse Resort in a stunning location overlooking the breathtaking limestone karst spires of Phang Nga Bay while having supper with the genial resident General Manager Marc Landgraf.
Cycling in Paradise
Phuket Life
Marc Landgraf the genial General Manager of Paradise Resort and TreeHouse Villas on Koh Yao Noi had kindly invited us to stay and sample the cycling trips they offer both their guests and visitors around the island. As we hadn’t cycled Koh Yao Noi for a few years, we seized this enticing offer with enthusiasm.
Blazing Saddles: Brainy bicycling
Phuket Life
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Health
As if burning calories and improving cardiovascular fitness and body strength weren’t enough, recent studies show the brain-boosting benefits of biking, which begs the question, does cycling improve your sanity?
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