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Merlin Beach Patong Paradise

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 13 July 2010 by Chinwagger31 July 2015

Check out at 6am, transfer at 6.15, flight at 8.40 our final leg to Phuket was a very early start. Changi Airport is a giant shopping mall, with bleary eyes we made an unenthusiastic effort to look around. Hungry we gave up and settled at a bar for breakfast waiting for our flight to board. Singapore to Phuket was an … Continue reading →

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Orchard Road

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 12 July 2010 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

The day started with a more than adequate breakfast in the hotel and then we headed on foot in search of Orchard Road, the main shopping district in Singapore. Looking the directions up on the net showed it was actually just a straight walk from the hotel. I estimated the walk to be thirty minutes up the road. It was … Continue reading →

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Singapore for a Sling

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 11 July 2010 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

A screech of brakes, flaps up at maximum and the jet engines screaming in reverse we hit the tarmac in Singapore, normally a place I pass through but this time I was staying a few days. This trip is different, instead of flying off for business I am on holiday with Al, and we going to stay a couple of nights … Continue reading →

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Phuket for my Birthday

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 10 July 2010 by Chinwagger6 October 2019

Little more to say, as a treat for my sixtieth Birthday my wife was taking me to Thailand, I had no more details than that so it was a case of sitting back and enjoying the ride. I kept a small journal of events which I am sharing in this series of posts.

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Houseboat on Caboolture River

Buying a House Boat

The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I'll ...
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A pair of Ugg Boots

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Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader ...
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The Forklift

My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these ...
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First Red Claw Catches

First trip for our camper, we  travelled very west of here, to a place called Lake Boondooma . This is a man-made lake which has a huge area for camping. The camping is "bush camping", off grid no power, no ...
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Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

After my assignment in Taipei Al and I decided to brave the wilds of inner Taiwan and find somewhere to spend a few days doing very little other than a some walking and perhaps some bike riding. Our destination is ...
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Coast Guard Rescue

Coast Guard Rescue

Sometimes things just don't go as right as they could and sometimes when that happens particular people are always present. You feel that perhaps, just perhaps they have a little bit influence, it could be some sort of bad air ...
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Caught by a Lure

Caught by a Lure

“Bugger it’s got me” The sound of a fisher that’s just been hooked by their own lure. Fishing in the Upper Noosa we only use lures. Mostly traditional lures, although we have tried various squidgy soft baits and this time ...
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Is Easter fishing cancelled again

Its Thursday 21st April 2011 and its been raining for three days, our back garden has had 24cm, 23cm and 19cm, Harley tells me there has been more further north at Cooroy. Great as Cooroy is close to where we ...
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Toilet paper and snorkelling

The morning constitutional, is always a ritual taken with some trepidation when camping. The facilities can vary from nothing at all, that's the dig your hole and bury your own business,  to full clean flush toilets with hot and cold water ...
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