🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand - February 18-24, 2026

​On the culinary side …

 Butterfly Pea drink. Made with blue flowers with lemon and honey … quite good!

Tom Kha Guy (Coconut Chucken Soup)

My favourite Thai soup is a delicious infusion with intense easy-to-love flavour of Thai herbs: lemon grass, galangal and makeup (kaffir lime) leaves. Chicken for protein, coconut milk, ginger, fish sauce, palm sugar, chicken broth, mushrooms and hot peppers to taste. It’s gluten free!

Again! My favourite fruit I think and in season! Amur plum. Low in sugar, high in antioxidants and rich in fibre. Oh yes, very deliciously sweet. I bought these slightly smaller plumbs for 60 baht per kilo or C$2.65

At work …

Brushes and brooms

And yes… a manicure at the beach from this wonderful lady … 200 baht (C$8.83)

One of the local Motorbike Taxi drivers. Cost for quick ride to the beach … 60baht (C$2.64)

Male and female Magpie Robin

Ever present Common Myna

At the beach …

Required flower pic

🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭 Sanctuary of Truth (ปราสาทสัจธรรม) - Pattaya Thailand - February 20, 2026

​The still unfinished Sanctuary of Truth museum is an architectural wonder made entirely of wood. The museum structure is a hybrid between temple and castle. My second posting of this place on this blog, it represents Ayutthaya, Hindu and Buddhist beliefs. Began in 1981 it is nearly completed. All visitors are required to wear hard hats.  

🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand - February 13-17, 2026

​Definitely under the category of miscellaneous…

There once was a Cockatoo in a bar …

This one I call Ghost Sails …

 

🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand - February 10-11-12 2026

​In the same pattern here. Miscellaneous pics here again. 

When you park under a flowering tree you …

Yellow-browed Warbler

The same turtle that you buy for a pet … not native here and released into this large pond

Amazing fruit seller I’ve bought from for many years. She tramps through the sand daily carrying a large tray full of packaged fruits and 2 large heavy bags besides. Great price, ready smile and gives you a few finger bananas as a bonus!

Every year I take a pic or two of this amazing flower from a tree which blooms at the bottom of the tree and bears large cannonball sized fruit 

🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand - February 7-8-9 ,2026

​A few days here again before going to Pattaya again for R&R. I am accused of too many flower pics so only 2 here. Around Silom area and Chinatown areas of Bangkok.

Fantastic Thailand strawberries for 100 baht ($C4.34)

Ever present marigolds used for amulets for wealth, prosperity and good fortune

Bangkok skyline from atop hotel