Decade
Buddha at Koh Kret Ten years ago I was working in Thailand. I stayed there for six months and when I left I thought that that would be that but two years later I was back in Bangkok for a second six month contract. I look back upon those times with much affection. I was putting a seal upon my teaching career and St Stephen's International School was a lovely place in which to pull that curtain down. I was well paid and this enabled me to travel away from Bangkok - to Chiang Mai in the north down to Koh Lanta and Koh Phangan in the south. And I went to Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and across the Andaman Sea to Sri Lanka. Great adventures. So many memories. I would love to travel some more. However, this damned pandemic has put the dampeners on those notions and in the meantime I am growing older. Of course, there will come a day when independent faraway adventures are no longer possible for me so the passing of these coronavirus months has very much felt like observing precious s...
