Some days are just more ramarkable than others. Generally I've been living a quite steady and ordinary day-to-day life here, but occationally there is something worth mentioning and I believe last monday was such a day. I was doing my first...

I have mostly been quite well adjusted and prepared for the gap between the west and the east in terms of poverty and level of comfort. But as with my return from India last year, the readjustment from east to west seems to be more shocking. Seeing...

I have looked at my bank balance done some maths... The two months in South-East Asia have cost me a total of 1900€ and that includes my one-way flight here. That results in about 31 euros per day that I have spent. Granted, I haven't really been on...

It is remarkably easy to get good and inexpensive street food in my neigbourhood. There is one street packed with vendors a few blocks away from me and conveniently on the way to school. Even my home street has a few more established kitchens and there...

Okay, did some mandatory shopping for the new apartment at local 7-Eleven: 6l of water, hand soap, detergeant, a cleaning cloth and some toilet paper (130 baht or 2,5 euros total) but shopping for some cleaning beverages wasn't as succesful. For some...