Country Archive
The Best Place to Buy Plane Tickets (and Medicine…Wine…Cameras….)
Date: 01/27/2008Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008
Read more about retiring overseas in International Living Postcards—Sunday Edition
Buy your medicine in Argentina, glasses in Singapore, plane tickets in London, and cameras and computers in the United States. Buy French wine in France, Spanish wine in Spain, and Argentine wine in Argentina. Don't buy any wine at all in Thailand, where the government taxes the stuff at 400% or so.
See More [+]Early Retirement Starts With Your Attitude
Date: 12/23/2007Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007
Read more about retiring overseas in International Living Postcards--Sunday Edition
Emilio was a beach vendor in Phuket, Thailand, where Vicki and I spent a month earlier this year with some friends. It was slow season, May/June, and Emilio had few customers. He stopped by and chatted with us every now and again. He spoke good English.
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A rebellious Brit finds love in Thailand
Date: 10/03/2007
Neal Bambridge grew up in York in the north of England and attended University in Liverpool, where he studied electronic engineering. He then worked as a telecommunications consultant in Manchester. Every day, he'd put on his suit and tie and drive to work. After putting in 10 hours he'd go home to bed and get up to do it all again the next day. On weekends?when the weather was accommodating, which wasn't all that often in northern England?Neal would climb aboard his Harley Davidson and cruise on out to his country house. Work contracts occasionally took him to places like India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Iran, and every vacation was spent backpacking, mostly in Asia.
Sound idyllic? Some would say yes, but to Neal Bambridge, this was no way to live.
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No I "Do's" at the Buddhist Wedding
Date: 10/01/2007Six drummers in ethnic dress led the wedding parade through the traffic, followed by six dancing girls in gorgeous costumes.
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In Your IL Magazine This Month--On the Trail of the Khmer Ruins in Thailand
Date: 07/02/2007In the early morning calm, red sandstone walls loom above as dark clouds gather overhead. Ancient Banyan trees cast a shadow over the ruins as if to protect some secret past.
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On the trail of the Khmer ruins in Thailand
Date: 07/01/2007
In the early morning calm, red sandstone walls loom above as dark clouds gather overhead. Ancient Banyan trees cast a shadow over the ruins as if to protect some secret past.
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Enjoy a Luxury Lifestyle on a Shoestring on Thailand's Seductive Coastlines
Date: 06/20/2007In Thailand you can live like a prince on very little. Just about everything is inexpensive: four pineapples for $1...teeth-cleaning for $7...an hour’s foot massage for $6.
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