Contact Me

You’ll find contact forms for specific sections e.g. – room bookings, transfers, real estate etc on the relevant pages of this site.
You can also add your own comments, recommendations and incoherent ramblings to many of the sections.
But, if you’d like to contact me by email for some other reason, for …

Contact Them: Koh Chang Phone Numbers

Need a phone number for a place on Koh Chang?  Some of the more useful or frequently asked for numbers for bungalows etc are listed here.  But be warned some numbers will be out of date as I haven’t updated this page for a while as doing that is a …

Koh Chang Web Design & IT Troubleshooting

Koh Chang Web Design and IT Guru. When this site, which is Wordpress based, was hacked in September 2009 I had a few offers of help from readers of the site who knew far more than me about securing sites and ensuring this doesn’ t happen again.

One very helpful guy was Cyril, a Frenchman who previously lived in Thailand for several years and is currently a Senior Developer for a very well known travel website in Europe.  I am now pleased to recommend him to anyone needing a site or who has one that isn’t functioning as it should.

Bizarre Thailand – My First Book Review

No idea where this fits into the site but when I was on a couple of short trips to Koh Mak recently I took a book entitled ‘Bizarre Thailand’, written by long time expat journo Jim Algie with me.  My reading nowadays is confined to holidays and so although I …

Koh Chang – Turning into a Dolphin Death Zone

I often receive emails from visitors to Koh Chang asking where they can see dolphins.  Well, here’s one for you.  This is one of NINE that have been found on Koh Chang recently.
My reply to the question of where to see dolphins is usually head to Oasis Seaworld in Chantaburi, …

Lonely Planet Bloggers

If you liked reading my take on Koh Chang you might also like these other travel blogs.   I don’t  know any of the  authors personally and the blogs cover a disparate range of locations and types of travel and tourism.
The one thing these blogs have in common is that they …

The Weather

What to expect . . . High Season coincides with the best weather, so From mid November through to  March you can expect plenty of sunshine and hardly any rain.  You can also expect strong winds from the northeast in November & December which cool things down a little.
The …

The Baan Rim Nam Story – Part 3

Aug – Dec 2004

When you rely on a single, 200 metre long stretch of 3/4 inch piping for your water supply your always going to have some problems . . .especially if your pipe also has to run under a …

The Baan Rim Nam Story – Part 2

May  – July 2004

In mid-May we started to do some work on the house. Structurally the house was OK . . . or so it appeared, the real work lay in tarting it up so that people other than Burmese  refugees would be happy to stay there. …

The Baan Rim Nam Story

(a.k.a Plan C)
This is the story of our holiday home / guesthouse ‘Baan Rim Nam’ on the island of Koh Chang, Thailand which, when complete, will be available for visitors to rent.

Way back in October 2003, our original plan was to rent some land and …