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Currently on the road updating the 16th edition of Reise Know How Thailand. 14 days around the north, Chiang Mai, Pai, Mae Hong Son, Mae Sariang, Chiang Dao, Fang, Thaton, Mae Salong, Mae Sai, Chaing Saen, Chiang Kong, Nan, Phrae, Lampang, Chiang Rai and a few places that escape me now. Eating miles every day….
I have just come to the end of an extended stay in India. I have been living in an old crumbling palace, the infamous and incredible Z Hotel in Puri, Orissa, facing the Bay of Bengal, hanging with my co-conspirator Aroon Thaewchatturat. Puri, once a hippy haven for Japanese drop-outs, is now an all but [...]