by Ricky Ward | Apr 9, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป
In ancient times of course Songkran Festival was a car free time, but I wonder if elephants and buffaloes joined in the fun, unlikley considering the absence those days of funseekers from foreign parts? The overlay of modernity in old ChiangMai has brought with it...
by Ricky Ward | Apr 9, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
From Dave Arthurs As of today, it has taken me almost three years to build the house that we live in; a modest sized mud-brick house in an un-productive Lamyai orchard. The best thing about our house, and the reason that we bought this land in the first place,...
by Ricky Ward | Mar 30, 2015 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป
2015 is set to be yet another historic year in the battle to save our Earth from destruction by the Sun as the nations meet at Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Where Copenhagen failed is there hope Paris will succeed? Well as the panorama below...
by Ricky Ward | Feb 4, 2015 | Education / การศึกษา, General / ทั่วไป
At a showing last week of the documentary film “The Great Gamble On The Mekong” by local director Tom Fawthrop, former Senator Kraisak Choonhavan described Laos a “the victim of Thai Capitalism”. In earlier times this involved, he said...
by Ricky Ward | Jan 5, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน
1111 ๑.ชาวบ้านย่านนิมมานเหมินท์ในตัวเมืองเชียงใหม่เคยร้องเรียนเทศบาลเรื่องแนวถนนทีชำรุดจากการวาง ท่อประปาไม่เรียบร้อยร่วม 10 ปีแล้ว ทำให้การใช้รถจักรยานและจยย.มีความเสี่ยงต่อการแฉลบล้มหรือ หลบทางชำรุดแล้วโดนรถต์ตามหลังชนท้าย ๒. ชาวบ้านได้ร้องเรียนไปทาง...
by Ricky Ward | Jan 1, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน
As it so happens I Went Out in the Woods Today : Didn’t mean to, well not in the afternoon that is, just one of those things that happens when something one expects or plans does not. My plan was to cycle a somewhat circuitous route to take a swim at the...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 28, 2014 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน
Of late it seems everyone in town is complaining about traffic jams. Only yesterday my neighbor complained that it took her three hours to go and buy shoes at the Worowat Market and return home to Nimmanhaemin Soi 1. The red taxis are trying to keep out of the traffic...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 24, 2014 | Education / การศึกษา, General / ทั่วไป
By 25th December in the northern hemisphere the days are starting to get longer now that we have passed the longest night. So it is time to celebrate the Sun’s victory over darkness, just as the Romans of old did. This morning the mercury (actually red coloured...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 23, 2014 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน
Chiang Mai’s best bike lane – Here it is : No red trucks No big busses No 10 wheel trucks No Parking of cars allowed, No overtaking allowed 50 km speed limit No pot holes but .. no bicycles allowed in RTAF Wing 41 and the PM is promoting bicycle riding?...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 20, 2014 | General / ทั่วไป
Admirers of the handsome Chiang Mai Mayor Tessanai Buranapakorn, Nephew of Provincial Administrative Organisation President Boonlert B, may regret the fact that since the abrupt change of government last May, the seemingly endless procession of new posters on the...
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