We do a series on "Places We've Loved" and Phuket won't make it. Did we have fun there? Yes, we had a lot of fun. But if you're trying to decide where to spend limited time and money to go we wouldn't recommend Phuket. The towns are very noisy, crowded, chaotic and filled with fume-spewing traffic. Maybe we didn't get to the right places, but in our experience you couldn't … [Read more...]
Phangna Bay and James Bond Island, Thailand
Back when Roger Moore was James Bond and making the 10th Bond movie, “The Man with the Golden Gun”, it was filmed, in part, on an island near Phuket, Thailand. Even though the film was shot close to 40 years ago, was a critical dud and one of the lowest ranked films of the Bond franchise, the rock is somehow still a major tourism draw. The gun may not have been golden but the … [Read more...]
Transportation: What options have we missed?
Brunette sent Blonde a smarty pants picture of Brunette sitting, smiling in a Bentley convertible in Florida yesterday. A friend who is in Morocco sent a picture of herself riding a camel (sort of). Blonde's friend who is staying with her (very) temporarily takes a train and a bus to work. Blonde uses her feet as much as possible followed by cabs then her car. So many ways to … [Read more...]