Out and About Thailand

Out and About Thailand is het weblog van mijn vriend Mike Newman. Mike woont in Nakornratchasima (Korat) in Thailand. Het ligt op ongeveer 500 kilometer ten noord oosten van Bangkok. Mike schrijft vaak over de omgeving waar hij en zijn partner wonen.
Vandaag postte hij een artikel met foto's over een fietstocht in de omgeving van hun woonplaats
http://buadhai.blogspot.nl/2013/09/bike-ride-september-8-2013.html

Het is een zeer onderhoudend weblog voor iedereen die iets over Thailand te weten wil komen.
P.s. Mike houdt heel erg van duiken en doet dit ook vaak, de reportages daarover zijn fenomenaal!!!

Mike met zijn super vriendelijke en aardige partner, tijdens een duiktrip. 

Mike and his Pat

My dear friend Mike from Thailand wrote me in a mail the following......

We had a few days off so we took a short road trip to Chanthaburi, which is about 4 hours drive south of our town Korat.
We had a great time. Lots of wonderful seafood and many kinds of fruits. Not many people vacation in this place, so the beaches are very uncrowded. It's out first time to stop there, although we've driven through many times. We'll go back!

And viewers of Stormblast1953's weblog, you all can see the pictures that Mike and Pat took too !!!
Take a look at this http://www.mgnewman.com/Travel/show.php?mode=index&show=Chant1005

Enjoy the free ride!!!

Difference in Time

My friend Mike (a.k.a The man from the other Side) who lives in Korat Thailand, just mailed me ''Hey Henkie, still 2 hours and 30 minutes to go''
I answered, ''for us 6 hours more in 2009''.
We will wait and see what will happen in 2010!!

P.s. Difference in Time in ''wintertime'' is 6 hours!!
Difference in Time in ''summertime'' 1s 5 hours!!

Thailand is Mooi

Thailand mooi is, dat laat mijn vriend Mike in een fotoreportage weer eens aan ons zien. Hij bezocht een heel klein dorpje genaamd Ban Butan iets ten noorden van zijn woonplaats Nakornratchasima (voor ons Korat!!). Ban Butan heeft het voorrecht dat er een dam vlakbij is zodat men het water kan ''sturen'' en men het kan gebruiken voor bijvoorbeeld de rijst teelt. Kijk even mee naar de foto's die hij maakte van het voor ons ''vreemde'' gebied!!

The man from the other side

This last message on my web log for 2008 is a little note dedicated to my dear friend Mike.
5 years and 6 months ago, on the first of June 2003 I was browsing through some webcamsites to take a look at places as far away as possible. I found a homecam on the isle of Saipan, in the Pacific Ocean. I thought that was about the farthest place I could find, on the so called “other side”.
I saw orchids in a garden and a tropical pond. The webcam owner had a reaction form on his site, so I decided to leave a little message. Here’s what I posted:
Your Garden Looks Wonderful.Greetings From Henk
( I Live In Groningen Holland)
The answer came in a few minutes:
Hi Henk, Thanks for writing and thanks for your kind words. If you ever get to Saipan we'll have a beer on the porch. Mike.
We continued talking because we both had lots of questions and stories to share.
Over the last 5,5 years a lot has happened. Mike lives in Korat, Thailand now, with his wife Pat. We mailed each other about 800 times each and when we take special pictures we show them to each other. Our annual snail-mail Christmas gifts have become a good habit.
In the mean time we became 5,5 years older. Mike is retired. I’m not, unfortunately. But we’ve both gotten wiser, that’s for sure.
Mike, despite of the fact that it is sometimes hard for me to say the things I’d like to say, in a language that’s not my native language, I’d like to tell you that I really hope that we’ll continue writing. I think we’ve snet that many messages because of the fact that we like this way of communication very much. Have a very good time in Bangkok next week and tell me about it in the New Year.

Take care and kind regards from your friend Henk in Groningen (also the other side!)
http://www.mgnewman.com/live.html