Thailand Forest Rangers Rescued After Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding In Kanchanaburi, three forest rangers who went missing while patrolling a remote area for illegal gold mining have been found safe and well after a long night of searching. The national park launched a major search operation, including helicopter support, after contact with the three…
Like so many others, I was bored of my life at home. Failed marriage and a mundane job, and I desperately wanted to get more out of my life. I always felt like life was for living, but I hadn’t lived a life in years. The only problem was I didn’t have enough money to…
How I found myself retiring to Thailand was purely by chance. I was going there for a business meeting. We were looking to expand our operations out of Europe into Southeast Asia, and it was my job to go and investigate. That might sound like a great job, but it really wasn’t. The traveling was…
How did I end up here? I suppose I can ask myself that, but deep down I know the truth. I was looking for something different, something to remove me from the drudgery of day-to-day life. I’d already been to Thailand, already married a Thai, and we had a son, and we were living in…
Now Derek was quite a timid man. He didn’t really have any personality. He wasn’t one of those guys who walked into a room and lit it up. He wasn’t one of those guys that people were keen to get to know. He wasn’t one of those guys that attracted the ladies. He was a…
I bought my first condo in Thailand, more specifically in Bangkok, back in 2009. That first condo was the start of my transition from a UK centric to a Thailand centric investment portfolio. The first time I was in Thailand was 2 years before this. That’s when I met my wife who was from Thailand….
I am a guy living on the east coast of Canada and have traveled around the world several times and spent time with many women worldwide during my travels. I have been very lucky, I guess, and never met a lady who stole from me or messed with me or gave me any kind of…
60 years of moving in one direction and three years to mess it all up. That is how I would sum up my life up until this point. I’m 63 years old at the moment and reeling from some of the most stupid decisions I’ve ever made. I know now that everything I did was…
Back in 1996, I was seeing a girl called Noi. She was a lovely girl. When I came to Thailand, we would spend a month together and travel up and down Thailand. On one occasion, we met up in Bangkok. I had booked the Nana Hotel for a couple of nights before we went traveling….