On the wings of wind

Hiro arrived by chance into the North Gate Jazz Co-op, which is situated quite obviously... at the north gate (chang puak). The band playing on Mondays and Wednesdays needed a guitarist... and there he is. I accompanied Hiro 3-4 times to the Bar, just...

On the 1st table, a Japanese, a Chilean, a French and a Slovenian ^^ This is my home, our GH. People come and go slowly, it's not the rush like in some other places. For 2 weeks, we had this core of 5-6 ppl. What is really cool is that Hiro (my favourite...

Yep, I am almost one month late. But better late than never, he ? ^^ So, hum... Happy New Year ! It's the 4th in 6 months, crazy.... So it was the Buddhist New Year, on April 13th, celebrated in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the Yunnan province...

I remember talking once about how easy it was to modify information, when I was describing the opium museum in Burma. I got a new proof of it by email lately : you never know what to believe... But whatever they show us should always be questionned. True...

Sunday afternoon was spent in drinking (fanta for me, beer for the guys) and eating porc and grass-hoppers, listening to guitar and producing as many comical expression we could. I was feeling great with my new "friends". After one of them joked a "I...

I don't know. Maybe I just took more notice of my surroundings this time. Or if it was easier to talk to me because I was not busy talking with the monks. Probably both. During this trip, I discovered that I was being watched. Like basically any Western...

On the Saturday night, coming back from Ban Mao, I finally just left one party for another one. The house next to the GH was celebrating the wedding of one of the daughters. With the two backpacker girls from the GH, we decided to go and say hello. No...

Young Burmese. No, sorry... Young Tai Yai I miss them. It's stupid... we never really understood what we were saying to each other They don't speak English, I don't speak Thai, we spent 3h hours having fun and laughing together. I love this people

On Sunday night, the party was in Phra Chai's village. Other songs, other dances, other opportunities for me to talk with some guys from the staff. Other opportunities to take pictures :) On the road again... rice fields It's quite sunny, isn't it ? Blame...

On the Saturday evening and Sunday morning, it was "ceremony time" in Ban Mao, next to Chiang Tung. The Saturday was more about traditional songs and dances, the Sunday about Buddhist chanting and a speech in Thai, that I quit after a while, because I...