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Does Chiang Mai offer the perfect place to live and work? Well, live anyway
1st September 2010
I'll put my hands up and admit I've been somewhat unkind to Chiang Mai in past blogs. On past visits, I've usually had the job of playing tour guide to my ageing parents and a couple of their friends. It's never easy to move a group of elderly folk around a sizeable Asian city without having every tout and unofficial tour operator descending on you from miles around
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1st June 2010: A chef is born again
12th May 2010: World Cup Fever
25th March 2010: How expensive has Bangkok got?
4th March 2010: How’s the ‘decorate’ and the ‘supervise’?
23rd February 2010: A dollar or two on the side
4th February 2010: Thailand? yes we went there last weekend
30th January 2010: The skytrain to nowhere
17th January 2010: Yet another list of Bangkok annoyances
8th January 2010: Thank you for calling your ISP hotline
14th December 2009: From the planet Xerox
12th May 2009: The Joys of Air Travel
14th January 2009: Five days in Hong Kong and Macau
5th January 2009: The Parrot’s Revenge
3rd October 2008: The big black hole
25th September 2008: Something’s afoot
22nd August 2008: Notes from a small island
6th August 2008: Taxi!
23rd July 2008: retail wars
2nd July 2008: Homesickness of sorts
4th June 2008: Things ain’t what they seem
22nd May 2008: Life on the ocean wave
2nd May 2008: chatting with the natives
9th December 2007: Bah humbug
2nd December 2007: Apartment-hunting
3rd November 2007: Back in civilisation
2nd October 2007: A break from Thailand
26th September 2007: A load of bankers
15th September 2007: In the pink
30th August 2007: Seen one you’ve seen them all
15th August 2007: Missionary position
25th July 2007: The Rose of the North
5th July 2007: Planning a trip
29th June 2007: VIPs and webcams
21st May 2007: Office blocks and Starbuckian
6th April 2007: May I look in your bag sir?
6th March 2007: A restaurant and an ancient village
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