<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Travel - Thailand @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Travel - Thailand) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Travel - Thailand @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Pomi&apos;s story</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pomis_story.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pomis_story.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pomis%5Fstory</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well the old body continues to give up on me and break down at perplexing and depressing frequency.
The writing up of all the thousands of butterfly notes pinned to books, guides and other travel memorabilia has all but ground to a halt, it's diffic]]></description></item><item><title>&apos;Mai pen rai&apos; - never mind</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/mai_pen_rai__never_mind.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/mai_pen_rai__never_mind.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mai%5Fpen%5Frai%5F%5Fnever%5Fmind</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brooding on my continued incarceration in BK, I'm struck by how I'll never understand the Thai people. I rountinely get angry at the smallest of things - hawkers trying to drag me to inspect their crap wares, the bird sellers and their cruel cages, t]]></description></item><item><title>The perils of self medication - PIV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_if_selk_medication__piv.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_if_selk_medication__piv.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fperils%5Fif%5Fselk%5Fmedication%5F%5Fpiv</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Before I knew it I was stripped, washed and laid out on a hospital bed, having been prodded, x-rayed and injected with God knows what.Before they were done I had IV drips in both arms, with four different solutions being flushed into me. This made th]]></description></item><item><title>The perils of self-medication part III</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication_part_iii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication_part_iii.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fperils%5Fof%5Fselfmedication%5Fpart%5Fiii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perils of medication IIBummrungrad International hospital is a pleasure to visit, indeed, it almost makes it worth being ill. There are lot of health tourists here, mostly Arabs recieving treatments unavailable in their own countries. Americans, faci]]></description></item><item><title>The perils of self-medication - PII</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication__pii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication__pii.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fperils%5Fof%5Fselfmedication%5F%5Fpii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So having the enduring gastritis, the mending mouth sores, I was able to make the visa run to renew my visa. Sure enough, two hours into the journey I stopped the bus and got out to throw up like a roaring God, bellowing like a bull. I'd also suddenl]]></description></item><item><title>The perils of self-medication</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fperils%5Fof%5Fselfmedication</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'd been trying to leave BK, the city of angels for nearly three months now, but with the sort of ad-hoc things that kept cropping up - robbery, yeast infections sheer inertia and so sprinkled with the odd positive reason for staying 'just a few days]]></description></item><item><title>The comeback kid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_comeback_kid.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_comeback_kid.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcomeback%5Fkid</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, hardly a kid I suppose.Just a short note.I've spent the last week in hospital undergoing chemical bowel surgery - all very pleasant stuff! Glad to say I'm on the mend now and out of hospital, though still feeling somewhat weak and fragile. Turn]]></description></item><item><title>Women and their waists...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=women%5Fand%5Ftheir%5Fwaists</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Those that read me regularly will know that I've spent quite a while now travelling through SE Asia and have fallen hook line and sinker for the local women - they truly are beyond compare. But why?I used to think it was perhaps their feminity, somet]]></description></item><item><title>On Sukhumvit road - today I kicked a beggar</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/on_sukhumvit_road__today_i_kicked_a_beggar.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/on_sukhumvit_road__today_i_kicked_a_beggar.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fsukhumvit%5Froad%5F%5Ftoday%5Fi%5Fkicked%5Fa%5Fbeggar</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today I kicked a beggarSukhumvit road is the main artery through Bangkoks business centre. Tourists, ex-pats and busisnesmen abounfd - and so do those who feed off them. For the most part its honest, vendors simply selling their wares - overpriced bu]]></description></item><item><title>Sukhumvit road and Nana plaza</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sukhumvit_road_and_nana_plaza.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sukhumvit_road_and_nana_plaza.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sukhumvit%5Froad%5Fand%5Fnana%5Fplaza</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every now and again the entire country seems to close down. For the most part this is for celebrating things like the New Year, religious festivals and so on; in total there are something like 15 public holidays. One of them is quite curious, it's th]]></description></item><item><title>The white porcelain toilet</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_white_porcelain_toilet.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_white_porcelain_toilet.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fwhite%5Fporcelain%5Ftoilet</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It was another night in Claytons small bar in Chinag Mai, the usual screaming bar-girls and Clayton's drunken bayings. The night was hot, the rains had ceased and steam was pouring back into the sky off the soaked pavements. A tall, lean, affable Ame]]></description></item><item><title>One the streets of Bangkok - Khaosan Road</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/one_the_streets_of_bangkok__khaosan_road.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/one_the_streets_of_bangkok__khaosan_road.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=one%5Fthe%5Fstreets%5Fof%5Fbangkok%5F%5Fkhaosan%5Froad</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the early morning you could forgive Khoasan Road for being just another dirty, grimy, haze filled street stuffed with an oppressive blanket of heat that you could easily slice with a blunt knife. 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I had something like $5000 in my current account, the account linked]]></description></item><item><title>Bangkok - the worst 48 hours of my life (probably) P2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bangkok__the_worst_48_hours_of_my_life_probably_p2.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bangkok__the_worst_48_hours_of_my_life_probably_p2.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bangkok%5F%5Fthe%5Fworst%5F48%5Fhours%5Fof%5Fmy%5Flife%5Fprobably%5Fp2</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I didn't so much awake the next day but gradually drift into and out of consciousness, fitfully emerging into the morning light ony hinted at by the heavy drawn drapes that concealed the ugliness of the Bangkok skyline without. Inch by resented inch]]></description></item><item><title>Bangkok - the worst 48 hours of my life (probably)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bangkok__the_worst_48_hours_of_my_life_probably.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bangkok__the_worst_48_hours_of_my_life_probably.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bangkok%5F%5Fthe%5Fworst%5F48%5Fhours%5Fof%5Fmy%5Flife%5Fprobably</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It all started innocently enough, my usual routine, I arose breakfasted on some fruit, cheese and bread and caught up with the BBC world news. Then I went to the internet cafe, caught up with a fraction of my correspondence and eventually gave up and]]></description></item><item><title>Back to Bangkok</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/back_to_bangkok.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/back_to_bangkok.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Fto%5Fbangkok</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The time had finally come, it was time to go back, to where I was not sure, but the money wouldn't last forever and besides I was truly squandering it now, I'd become lazy, unadventerous and profligate. I wasn't working, I had gone back to my leechin]]></description></item><item><title>Pattaya - Steady Eddie part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pattaya__steady_eddie_part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pattaya__steady_eddie_part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pattaya%5F%5Fsteady%5Feddie%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Outside Pattaya's only sex show there were signs of intrigue, purporting to show 'frog in pussy, fish in pussy, woman shoot ping-pong ball from pussy, unspeakable tricks with bananas and so on. It occurred to me then that I'd never actually been to a]]></description></item><item><title>Pattaya - Steady Eddie &amp; the go-go bars</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pattaya__steady_eddie__the_gogo_bars.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pattaya__steady_eddie__the_gogo_bars.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pattaya%5F%5Fsteady%5Feddie%5F%5Fthe%5Fgogo%5Fbars</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I slipped into a sordid yet wonderfully satisfying routine. I would awaken about 11.00 am, later if I had bought a girl home with me, and shower and stroll down the Beach road. On the way I would buy the papers, a magazine or two and settle in the Lo]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake Tsunami update - the pledged aid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_pledged_aid.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_pledged_aid.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftsunami%5Fupdate%5F%5Fthe%5Fpledged%5Faid</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The response to the appeal for aidÂ Â by people and governments the world over has been truly staggering. With anything up to $4 billion dollars pledged. A shame-faced America eventually agreed to cough up $350 million after an astonishingly embara]]></description></item><item><title>Earthquake tsunami update - the good, the bizarre and the ugly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_good_the_bizarre_and_the_ugly.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/earthquake_tsunami_update__the_good_the_bizarre_and_the_ugly.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=earthquake%5Ftsunami%5Fupdate%5F%5Fthe%5Fgood%5Fthe%5Fbizarre%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fugly</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ten days after the double disaster in Asia, people are picking up the pieces of their lives and the many stories of grief and woe are interspersed with the occasional tales of miraculous survival.One fisherman man was rescued a week after his boat ov]]></description></item></channel></rss>