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PLEASE NOTE: I am moving my RSS feed to this address: feeds.feedburner.com/travelswithanineyearold/ofRK. If you subscribe by RSS, please update your settings! American politics in 2017 really is, like herpes, the gift that keeps on giving. And – oh boy! – is it costing the self-employed economy! Back …
A travel blogger requested on Twitter that I write something about the political situation in Thailand, rather than merely “trolling” by sharing links about the human rights situation there. And while this may not seem remotely topical by now – it’s well-known that Thailand’s human rights situation has been deteriorating steadily since the May 2014 military coup – it is relevant. It’s not elephant rights that are the elephant in the room at TBEX Asia – it’s human…
I whine about Bali a lot, both because Bali and because British. But I love Indonesia. And this trip I’m on has reminded me why. Because Indonesia is the only place in the whole wide world where you can set out looking for an island populated entirely by midgets and land up diving with whale sharks. (Probably also the only place where the equivalent of the head of a county council will invite you to his house to meet the spirits of ancestral kings, too.) I am currently “on assignment” as ponces have it…
