by Jim Algie | May 30, 2022 | Blog, Features, Travel Tales
Author Jim Algie chronicles his on-and-off love affair with Thailand that still continues to this day even though he moved to Mexico in 2022. Nothing is more common among expats than sitting around bitching about their adopted country and its inhabitants. When...
by Jim Algie | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog, Book Reviews, Travel Tales
Travel as an anti-aging agent is a persistent theme in this absorbing memoir. Throughout her witty and adeptly written travel memoirs, Janet Brown has taken the adage that “life is a journey” to a multifaceted extreme. In previous books, she has led readers through...
by Jim Algie | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Travel Tales
The Thai New Year, or Songkran, has become watered down in many urban centers, writes author and photographer Jim Algie, as you can see from all the malls where Buddha images are set up to be rinsed by patrons who go through the blessing motions with little heart and...
by Jim Algie | Aug 2, 2016 | Travel Tales
A holistic retreat on Koh Samui called Kamalaya caters to burnt-out execs by combining age-old disciplines with science, art, film screenings, traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, as well as workshops on everything from meditation to Tibetan music and anger...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Travel Tales
When I first came to bizarre Thailand in 1992, strange uses and perversions of English were everywhere, from the S&M Bakery (later changed to S&P), to a bar in Chinatown called the OD Café. The signs also had their charm, though, seemingly satirizing and...
by Jim Algie | May 31, 2016 | Travel Tales
Beyond its glittering façade of rampant commercialism, Christmas in Asia is well feted in a spirit sometimes religious, sometimes distilled and often unintentionally satirical Nothing says Christmas quite like a shirtless male model in a Santa cap posing for beefcake...
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