Samuel Benoit

While I may technically be back in Canada now, and did not have the chance to post any content for the past few weeks, don’t think for a second that us here at the Life and Works will not be milking the past few weeks over the next several weeks for content. 

Having served in Thailand for five months at the beginning of 2004 I came back more than a little bit proud of having been there all that time without once setting eyes on a beach.  I was turned off by the horror stories of overpriced food, beaches crawling with Europeans and the horrible things besides the beach that attract the tourists.  I was similarly proud about my having not visited Goa, India’s beach resort city, during the six months I was living three hours away from it in Northern Karnataka. 

When I wrote to some old friends in Thailand about my coming over, they invited me to tag along on for a beach trip a couple days after my arrival to the island of Ko Samet not far from Bangkok.  The island gets its fair share of foreigners, but it’s more of a destination for Thais living in Bangkok.  I went, and swam, and ate, and it was good.  Click here to see the set of pictures.  

I decided when I started the website that I would never apologise to you people for occasions of infrequent posting or for my views on Europeans, can tell you that now that I am in the land of free time and high-speed wireless, there should be nothing preventing me from rehashing the past into content on a much more frequent basis from now on.  More later on Thailand.