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A meal with Scot Toon, Managing Director – Asia for The Pavilions
Phuket Life
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People
The Pavilions group of exotic and highly individualistic hotels and resorts may appear at first blush to be a mish-mash of unconnected properties without much of a uniting theme or vision. Yet, when you delve a little deeper into these sensational properties, you find that in fact an almost mystically bold vision unites them… that of finding “paradise” here on earth.
Blazing Saddles: How jumping in the saddle can take our love lives up a gear
Phuket Life
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Health
Ask any advertising executive and they’ll tell you that using the words “sex or sexy” in an article will increase an ad’s readership by almost 100%. In fact, the article you are now perusing could well become the most widely-read in the long-running Blazing Saddles series, and you may well be one of many who has never previously read a Blazing Saddles article and indeed has very little interest in cycling!
Blazing Saddles: A lesson from Brisbane
Phuket Life
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Travel
Queensland’s capital city of Brisbane has a population of 2.4 million people, some four times the official figure for Phuket island. Yet driving around Brisbane, as I recently did, you would be forgiven for thinking you were in a quiet country town. The traffic flows efficiently and there’s rarely any bottlenecks or congestion with which to contend.
To E, or not to E? A time and a place for the electric bike
Phuket Life
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Travel
Like many cycling enthusiasts, I have long held a prejudice against electric bicycles. Somehow the whole idea of adding a motor of any kind into the primal equation of man, muscle and machine seemed just plain wrong and indeed a bit akin to, well, cheating.
The view from Koh Racha: A meal with Devan Bhaskaran
Phuket Life
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People
It was a horribly hot, sticky Phuket morning at Chalong Pier. The assembled throng of tourists queuing for their boats seemed as fractious as the weather itself. Heavy and menacing thunder heads roiled above us, but refused to explode into relieving rain torrents.
A meal with the man that makes Kata rock: Richard Pope
Phuket Life
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People
Sitting poolside at the stunning Kata Rocks resort and villa development with Richard Pope overlooking Kata Beach and Boo Island, it’s hard not to feel rather overawed. This is, after all, a quintessential vision of tropical perfection with beautiful, white, luxurious villas standing tall upon a stunning rocky headland overlooking the Andaman Sea.
Blazing Saddles: Cycling to 70
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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People
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
Phuket Life
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Dining
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
Phuket Life
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Health
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
Phuket Life
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Community
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
Phuket Life
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Environment
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.
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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Dining
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
Phuket Life
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Travel
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
Phuket Life
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Dining
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
Phuket Life
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Dining
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.
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