Over the Hill: the Books and Stuff

At the end of my last post, I had met the lovely ghostlike Buddha, but was yet to explore the old city of Sukhothai. And what a treat that w...

 This is the reason I came to Chiang Rai: Some years ago I took a hop-on-hop-off trip through Northern Thailand and into Laos. The purpose o...

I’m in Thailand, and of course Buddhas are everywhere. But I hadn’t realised, till I started looking, that Buddhas come in so many shapes an...

 Well, if I must celebrate the arrival of 2025, I might as well do it here. Of course, Bangkok’s inconsistencies came out to play. I chose t...

Farewell, Nepal. I’m safely home - it was an interesting journey. Priority was given, rightly, to getting relief supplies to the earthquake ...

I need to start with the most recent earthquake. Tremors are common here, and surely we all remember the devastation in Kathmandu and beyond...

Lumbini is beautiful, and complicated. It is the birthplace of Buddha, and so a very sacred site. A building marks the birthplace itself; it...