Had my blowout meal in Bangkok this evening, at one of the city’s best sushi places. It was very good, quite a delight, and plenty of things I’d not tried before, such as a baby snapper and seasonal squids and eels. I didn’t go for the premium omakase which cost half again as much though […]
Back to KL
I landed at 3.15 in the morning at KLIA2, which in itself was unfamiliar as these early morning arrivals had always, in the past, been to KLIA on my trips back from Pakistan. Familiarity returned, though, with the passage through immigration, collecting the luggage (as always arriving commendably fast) and walking out of the terminal […]
Unwanted visitor
Much as I love coming to Singapore, it doesn’t much love me back – I always get hauled aside for extra screening for some reason. Anyway, I was eventually let through. The day was spent travelling – it started well, with a tuktuk journey to the airport, followed by an easy flight to KLIA2 where […]
Work/life
Came to decision yesterday, let’s see how long it lasts. Basically: the work I do will never make me rich and, frankly, is not very important in the greater scheme of things. I’m closer to a telephone hygienist than to, say, sanitation engineer. So doing a lot of work will not actually make me much […]
Rabbit island
We took a boat to Koh Tonsay, Rabbit Island, today. It’s supposed to have the prettiest beaches, and we were a bit worried about the GF’s mother coming all the way across the world to mediocre beaches, so went to inspect. It was a very easy journey. The boat prices are high but fixed, we […]
Four weddings and a waterfall
On New Year’s Day we went for a pleasant walk up a hill to a waterfall where the water runs over stones carved with scenes from Hindu myths. I had completely forgotten that we’d been there before, but I think I had removed it from my memory as it had been horribly crowded and filled […]
Return
We returned to Istanbul last night. It was tiring but a surprisingly smooth journey considering we were lugging multiple suitcases and arrived at midnight. The flat is looking quite nice, though very dusty. We went for breakfast this morning, and I was struck by how flavourful the food is here, even though we had excellent […]
End to work
Today was my last day of committing to full-time work for one of my clients, which means that from actual 1.5 or 2x work I can go down to roughly full time when all my clients are accounted for. So, looking forward to that, though the large payments were nice. I tried the local interpretation […]
Change of fortune
We’re in Kenya, much to our surprise. Our taxi driver arrived, our airline existed, our various COVID tests and documents were correct, our visas went for a full three months, and there was a guy waiting outside the Mombasa airport to whisk us to Diani, where we are for the next couple of weeks. It […]
Disaster
The GF might have the corona, it seems very likely. we arrived in Stone Town – happily well masked, and by the end of the journey he looked like he was ready to keel over. Then our room wasn’t ready, so we found a rooftop restaurant to wait as he felt less and less well. […]