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Category Archive for 'holidays'

down and out in Manila

I’m blogging from the poolside of the Philippines’ dodgiest hotel, located in Pasay City on Manila Bay. At the table on my left is a party of loud Russians, sporting tattoos and thick gold bracelets on their massive, hairy arms. And those are just the girls. To my right sits a couple of chain-smoking Arab [...]

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mobile blogging

P: I love my iPhone! I’m blogging from my iPhone in the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok. It’s a Sunday morning and there are tens of thousands of Thais at the book fair (1.5 million visit the book fair in Bangkok each year); they’re just not in the hall I’m exhibiting in! It’s empty [...]

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lobster blood

P: Blogging from Thailand, where I’m attending the Bangkok International Book Fair by day and drinking lobster blood by night. Last night I was invited to eat at Somboon Seafood restaurant in Bangkok’s Chinatown by the Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand. The restaurant is apparently a favourite of former Japanese PM Koizumi, when he’s [...]

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thailand 08

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