Category Archives: Travel

Context Sensitive Advertising at its Best

22 June 2007 – 17:20

I saw a piece in the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald called Abu Dhabi playboys cut loose so naturally I clicked on it to see what it was about.
This was a follow-up piece on the Jupiter Mines Executives, known as Bananas in Pyjamas (or B1 and B2) because of their hi-jinks on an [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Abu Dhabi, Middle East | Comments (0)

Royal Thai Air Force Museum

16 June 2007 – 10:07

After much mucking around over the past year or so, I finally have the Royal Thai Air Force Museum photos back on line in a gallery and accessible to those that can’t get to Thailand to have a look for themselves.
This is one of the best Aircraft Museums I have visited around the world [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, History, Thailand, Wargaming | Comments (0)

Gallery Updates

12 June 2007 – 9:30

I have been madly updating the gallery over the past few days with Mark I versions in place for:

Mongolian Landscapes
Places Visited

I have also uploaded all the museum photos from the old gallery. These are covering the Choson, Three Kingdom and Koryo Periods of Korean History as well as the Thai Airforce Museum. Labelling (captions) are [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Australia, England, Europe, General, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Naval, Thomo, Wargaming | Comments (0)

Australian Visa Rules Abuse

26 April 2007 – 17:00

The Chosun Ilbo of Korea notes in an article about Prostitutes, Traffickers Abusing Australian Visa Rules that many Korean women are lured to Australia by unscrupulous Koreans on working holiday visas and that these women end up working in Korean Salons and in brothels in Australia for a year or two. Some women know the [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Australia, General, Korea, Mongolia | Comments (0)

Songkran 2007 - สงกรานต

23 April 2007 – 6:51

It was the 13th of April for 4 days. Songkran is Thai New Year and I was lucky to be here this time. In the past I have managed to pass through Thailand a few days before but never had the chance to stay here for it.
Songkran (สงกรานต) is the New Year in the Thai [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Thailand, Thomo | Comments (0)

Happy New Year to My Kazakh Friends

6 April 2007 – 19:04

I forgot - over a week ago it was New Year for the Kazakh folks that live in the west of Mongolia (and, I guess, in Uigur A.R. in China and in Kazakhstan). The New Year holiday in the west of Mongolia is known as Nauriz Kozhe (I think) and it occurs in March each [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Thailand | Comments (0)

Saudi Cats

5 April 2007 – 6:56

Never seen so many of the buggers before. They are everywhere. There are no dogs in the Kingdom to speak of (I believe the exceptions are guard dogs, sniffer dogs and hunting dogs) so the cats rule the streets. I’ve never seen a dog here in over six months in Jeddah (and the time I [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in General, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | Comments (5)

Korea Suffers Worst Yellow Dust Storm

3 April 2007 – 0:44

Over the weekend just gone, Seoul and parts of Korea were blanketed in one of their worst Yellow Dust Storms. This is an annual event starting around the end of March and carrying through to May. Often the dust is suspended high in the atmosphere, not coming down until out in the Pacific Ocean [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Korea, Mongolia | Comments (0)

Seoul Gets Taller

1 April 2007 – 4:32

One of my favourite cities is planning on getting taller. Seoul Metropolitan Government has reviewed a Korail (Korean National Railroad) blueprint to develop an international business zone near Yongsan Station. This will include a building up to about 620-meters high there. I wonder how it will look next to the Electronics Market and to [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Dubai, Korea, Middle East | Comments (0)

Temporary Husbands Needed

31 March 2007 – 4:00

In the Thursday, 29, March, 2007 (10, Rabi` al-Awwal, 1428) edition of the Arab News was a piece entitled Cheating the System. This piece talks about 13 young Saudi women, post-graduate students, who are looking for temporary husbands. The reason is that the women have won a scholarship to travel abroad to study. The reason [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in General, Middle East, Saudi Arabia | Comments (1)