A couple of days ago I was sat at a table having a drink with two of the biggest gangsters in Bangkok, Death Scot and Naughty Nerrad. The two of them had only been in the Big Mango for two months but they had already accumulated over eight million baht between them. The talk was [...]

New Year’s Day 2010 was only just over three weeks ago and a horrific incident occurred in Wonderful Wi’s village just minutes into the start of it. My memory is clear but my mind somewhat confused as to why it all happened. Sure, if you eat enough of the Thai holiday brochures then the Land [...]

I’m not sure what was the biggest problem, traffic congestion or bronchial catarrh. I’ll spit it out, I think the day was more full of lot (cars) than snot but either way I didn’t make it to Suvarnabhumi airport on time. I missed my flight back to the UK. Mai phen rai. I had an eight [...]

As 2009 draws to a close I thought I’d take a look back at Beyond The Mango Juice’s year so far and pick my favourite post from each month. Regular readers will have read most of my picks but there may be one or two which have escaped your attention. For newer readers the older [...]

At the moment this post is timed to go out I should be in mid flight somewhere between Abu Dhabi and Bangkok as I head for the Land of Smiles once again. The first stop for me will be to meet up with Wonderful Wi in Khon Kaen where we have a friend’s wedding to [...]

Beyond The Mango Juice enjoyed a quite fruitful month during October. Visitors to the site fell just short of the 3000 mark but that figure represents a near full recovery from the Denial of Service attack which struck my server a few months back. The stats from the first few days into November show visitors [...]

Eat your heart out Sir Walter Raleigh, I think I’ve made a greater discovery than your potatoes. For myself at least. One of the things I have always longed for when staying at our village home in Udon Thani is an English style snack. Nothing fancy, just a light bite at lunch time or an [...]

If you have recently lost a penknife, letter opener, scissors or even your favourite plastic shopping bag then there is a very good chance I might know where it is. So there I was, staring down at kebab and french fries, absolutely Hank Marvin (starving). I grabbed some tomato sauce, salt, I love lots of [...]

The journey from our village home to the city of Udon Thani is 65 kilometres, just over one hours drive and I know every bump and turn along the way. I’ll admit that travelling in a car as a passenger sends me to sleep and it’s the potholes and craters that wake me at different [...]

My recent holiday in Thailand took me to Kanchanaburi for the first four nights and my visit to the seven tier Erawan Waterfall was one of the best days of my whole holiday. For those of you who have yet to visit this picturesque province situated 130 kilometres from Bangkok on the west side of [...]