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Posted in Asia, Travel

Remember scene from movies The Beach that star by Leonardo Di Caprio? If you wondering where is that place, it is in Phi Phi Island, Thailand. It is also the most place of Thailand people wanted to visit.

In Thailand language, phi phi island also called as Koh Phi Phi (‘Koh’ means island), actually consists of two islands: Koh Phi Phi Don is the larger and Koh Phi Phi Leh. Koh Phi Phi Don is the base to stay while Phi Phi Leh are not no mans island, yet could be visited every day. Tourists who come here should go back in the afternoon because there is no infrastructure at all other than a public toilet. Usually the main tourist destination to the Phi Phi Islands is to go to Maya Beach.
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Posted in Europe, Travel

I sat down at the slender, grey-topped table next to the leafy fence that marked the edge of the Gimbsheim Weinbrunnenfest. My company for the evening, all of whom were more than three times my age, could easily have been half the participants in any small town ladies night bingo club.

Expecting to slowly sip a glass of wine or two over conversation of knitting, gardening, or perhaps if it got a little edgy, how so-and-so had stolen someone else’s goulash recipe and passed it off as their own, I settled in with a mild sense of dread. (more…)

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