Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Dec 4, 2009, 7:13 pm
November has come and gone now leaving just 20 days to Christmas and a period which will hopefully kick start Thailand's flagging tourism industry into better times. Will the next year see tourist...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Dec 2, 2009, 12:44 am
Over the past six years I've stayed in Udon Thani city for a total of well over 100 days. Those days have been spread over about 20 trips to the Land of Smiles and so I like to think I know a litt...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 26, 2009, 3:00 pm
A year or so back 'I wouldn't get out of bed for that kind of money' were spoken words that could often be heard in conversation here in the UK. One year on and the beds of many UK househ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 23, 2009, 8:38 am
Wonderful Wi's mama has a strange habit when it comes to the kitchen fridge and an even stranger one when bathroom time comes around. The photo on the right looks innocuous enough, bottled water a...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 20, 2009, 3:18 pm
The title poses a big question and one you might burn off a few calories thinking about. Most Thai ladies in their late teens to early thirties have the kind of bodies men lust after and western women...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 14, 2009, 10:55 am
I recently spent a few days in the city of Udon Thani, something I do on each of my holidays to Thailand. I look on Udon Thani as my barometer of how well tourism in Thailand is faring. In Bangkok the...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 10, 2009, 6:01 pm
In the 50 previous years of my life I never once imagined I would stand before so many graves in a country so far from my homeland. The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery truly moved me. There are 6,982 gra...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 8, 2009, 2:25 am
You may recall my post Three Steps To Heaven - Kanchanaburi's Erawan Waterfall in which Wonderful Wi and I visited the beautiful seven tier Erawan Waterfall and later that day travelled on the Tha...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 4, 2009, 4:44 pm
... remain slightly optimistic. The photographic theme for this month's review is animals and without further ado here's my pick of the best posts from my ... . That's it from Beyond T...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Nov 1, 2009, 4:42 pm
This post is aimed at those of you who are soon heading to Thailand for your first trip and also the slightly more experienced Pattaya type tourist who is considering a jolly up country to sample vill...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 29, 2009, 4:45 am
Bangkok's famous floating market is not actually in the capital city but can be found swimming in a sea of colours in Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi Province, 100 kilometres west of Bangkok. In the...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 24, 2009, 8:23 pm
Eat your heart out Sir Walter Raleigh, I think I've made a greater discovery than your potatoes. For myself at least. One of the things I have always longed for when staying at our village home in...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 21, 2009, 11:46 am
I am going to blow this post out of the water straight from the start. Wonderful Wi and I got to three steps from heaven then called it a day. The Erawan Waterfall in Kanchanaburi has seven tiers but ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 18, 2009, 8:30 pm
If you have recently lost a penknife, letter opener, scissors or even your favourite plastic shopping bag then there is a very good chance I might know where it is. So there I was, staring down at ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 15, 2009, 1:56 pm
A web search on Kanchanaburi and Tiger Temple will bring about a host of information but also arguments both for and against as to whether the captive tigers on display at the Temple are heavily sedat...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 12, 2009, 3:20 am
The journey from our village home to the city of Udon Thani is 65 kilometres, just over one hours drive and I know every bump and turn along the way. I'll admit that travelling in a car as a passe...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 10, 2009, 1:09 am
My recent holiday in Thailand took me to Kanchanaburi for the first four nights and my visit to the seven tier Erawan Waterfall was one of the best days of my whole holiday. For those of you who have ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 6, 2009, 1:50 am
The smiles and welcome from the three beautiful guest lounge receptionists at Abu Dhabi was very refreshing after a six hour Etihad flight from Bangkok. What came next for me was even better. I was pl...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Oct 3, 2009, 1:26 pm
It has taken me twelve days since arriving in Thailand to put together my first post but it hasn't been through a complete lack of want. A very busy schedule has seen myself and Wonderful Wi find ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 20, 2009, 9:02 pm
First I must offer my apologies to Boy George and Culture Club for not only stealing their song lyrics but also tweaking them a little bit, I'm sure they won't mind. Monday sees me head out...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 15, 2009, 6:27 pm
Renting a car or a four wheel drive truck in Thailand is not that cheap when placed on comparison to other things like hotels, food, public service travel and the fuels that each type of transport dri...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 11, 2009, 7:16 pm
If you have spent any time in Thailand then the pose in the picture above will be one you have seen plenty of times before. For many many months I had a slight obsession to try and solve what exactly ...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 10, 2009, 2:20 pm
The typical tourist in Thailand normally makes sure their holiday includes at least one visit to a Thai market to gather a few souvenirs to take back home and to get the feel of 'natural' Thai...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 6, 2009, 2:52 am
... smell from the bins rancid long before the refuse man arrives and the steamy humidity makes the heavy ... doors wide open and inside is one of the bin men. A three man team operates the bin...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Sep 3, 2009, 3:44 pm
I have been looking forward to September for a few months as it brings my next trip to the Land of Smiles and another chance to savour a couple more weeks basking in the beauty of Thailand. August was...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 30, 2009, 7:01 pm
A pensioner in Dundee, Scotland, is suing Tesco supermarket after a pineapple fell on her head at the Scottish store. The lawyer of Mary Raimo, 76, said that she could receive thousands of pounds in c...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 28, 2009, 3:03 pm
In my recent birthday bash post Two Cakes and One Schzophrenic I remarked that I wanted my readers subscribers count to rise and my search traffic hits to come down. My wish for both has been rewarded...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 23, 2009, 2:38 pm
Thailand is hardly painted on the world's great canvas in a complimentary way, not a dull black and white but more a mish mash of vivid colours. Some would say that the original has been stolen an...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 21, 2009, 5:57 pm
At great risk of being sued for divulging too much information and having my site closed down for disinformation I plough on regardless with the aid of some amazing photographic evidence in my first e...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 18, 2009, 12:45 am
Last week I concluded my Thailand At Work mini series with Village Noodles a post about one of Wonderful Wi’s relations who was struggling to earn a living in their village by selling noodles an...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 15, 2009, 6:18 pm

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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 11, 2009, 4:18 am

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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 9, 2009, 3:06 am
Village Noodles is the final part of my three post series about working life in Thailand. Pattaya Bar Girl and Isaan Hotel being the first two stories which have both received a lot of positive review...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 5, 2009, 7:20 pm
To those of you who do not own or contribute directly to a web or blog site then you cannot possibly imagine what lurks behind the stories and posts you read. Broken links, plugins and widgets that do...
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Hoo D. posted an article on Beyond The Mango Juice - Aug 1, 2009, 8:06 pm

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