Welcome to Sunday Summary, the meme in which I attempt to summarize the week that came before. As I write this entry, it is an EXTREMELY HOT Monday morning, the first day of May. Although we are no longer experiencing the abnormally high temperatures that we saw the last two weeks of May, it is … Continue reading (Late!) Sunday Summary #36, AKA “Moving Mayhem”
Old Town
Sunday Summary #9
Welcome to Sunday Summary, the meme in which I attempt to summarize the week that came before. It has been a very wet week, culminating in most of Phuket Town being underwater as I write this. I spent most of my morning today wading through dirty water and my afternoon putting together and uploading a … Continue reading Sunday Summary #9
Daily Phuket #14: 9 March 2021 – Where Are My Students?!
Our heatwave here in Phuket has been unrelenting for the past few days with the evenings being the hottest period of each day. It just saps my energy and I spend long hours once returning home after work listening to music stretched out on my bed in front of the floor fan. My ceiling fan … Continue reading Daily Phuket #14: 9 March 2021 – Where Are My Students?!
Daily Phuket #13: 8 March 2021 – Noodle Art
Once again, poor/non-existent Internet prevented me from uploading any photos last night so this one is posting a day late. Nothing to say, really, other than this is just one example of the copious amount of street art scattered around the Old Town area. This one is on a ngo ka ki (five-foot way) outside … Continue reading Daily Phuket #13: 8 March 2021 – Noodle Art
Daily Phuket #10: 5 March 2021 – Doors & Tiles
Here we are at No 46 Thalang Road in Old Phuket Town. The rowhouse seems to still be a residence rather than given over to completely commercial enterprise but I will need to return sometime in the afternoon to make sure. Many of the shophouses along Thalang and Krabi roads have remained in the same … Continue reading Daily Phuket #10: 5 March 2021 – Doors & Tiles
Daily Phuket #9: 4 March 2021 – Colorful Windows
I have always liked the multicolored window frames, shutters and flat arches on the upper floor at No. 112 on Thalang Road in Old Town Phuket. The upper-storey façade juts out over the lower part, creating the five-foot way detailed in yesterday's "Daily Phuket". The adjustable shutters on the floor-length windows allowed the young women … Continue reading Daily Phuket #9: 4 March 2021 – Colorful Windows
Daily Phuket #7: 2 March 2021 – Khaw Sim Bee & the First Police Station
The history of Phuket in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is quite interesting and one name keeps popping up: Khaw Sim Bee who is better known by his lordly title of Phraya Rassada. It was this latter sobriquet that was given to him after Siam's provincial government structure was reorganized in 1896 and … Continue reading Daily Phuket #7: 2 March 2021 – Khaw Sim Bee & the First Police Station
Improvements in Old Town
When I first arrived in Phuket, the Old Town area was a much different place. Very few non-Thais ever ventured there outside of one or two festivals each year. The throngs of Chinese tour buses were in the distant future, the number of outdoor cafes and interesting restaurants was virtually nil. The old Portuguese-Sino buildings … Continue reading Improvements in Old Town
Friday Photos #1: Shops on Thalang Road, Phuket
Welcome to the first installment of Friday Photos, a series in which I will highlight a selection of the week’s photos. I plan to build each segment around a particular theme and most will be in and around my neighborhood. That neighborhood happens to be the heart of Phuket, Thailand, just a stone’s throw from … Continue reading Friday Photos #1: Shops on Thalang Road, Phuket
My Neighborhood: A Phuket Town Photo Gallery
In this gallery I present most of the photos I took last week while walking around Phuket Town's historic center area as I was moving from my temporary lodgings at Thalang Guest House into a new apartment about five minutes north of Thalang Road. Thus, this truly is my "neighborhood." That neighborhood extends quite a … Continue reading My Neighborhood: A Phuket Town Photo Gallery
Mark Joseph Jochim 