Hostal Chalupa has its own kind of welcoming vibe… Use it as a jumping-off point to explore Tulum’s beaches, cenotes, and ruins, but leave time to soak up the atmosphere of the hostel itself,” reads one online review of this quirky establishment on Mexico’s Riviera Maya...
I worked on rigs and vessels all over the world, so I was no stranger to Bangkok. I probably first visited in the late ’70s. Twenty years later I had a condo there, now it’s 20 years later again and look where I am.” Barry worked as a mechanical engineer in the petrochemical industry for over 30 years. Sometimes he was lucky and worked in the Gulf of Mexico or in the Caribbean...
Pizza is universal. Everyone understands it. Most people love it. It’s relatively easy to make, and anyway, it was my wife’s idea,” says James Devos with a smile. James never imagined himself running a pizzeria in small-town Thailand. To be fair, not many people would think of such a thing. But in 2013 he met a nurse’s assistant working in his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut...
That’s a Monet and there’s a Van Gogh. This other one is very famous, the Card Players by Paul Cezanne…” Ernie Fawcett is in the sitting room of his home in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The paintings that hang on the walls are not the originals, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but his own copies of early modern art masterpieces...