Finally got to see a hockey game in Thailand and meet with the coaching staff afterwards. A last minute goal to the home side resulted in a 1-1 draw for the Thailand Women. Will come back to Chonburi again on Friday to hopefully see them again in the grand final.

Last night I checked out กินเล่นเล่น Craft Beer & Cocktail just 100m down on your right on Soi 44 Charan Sanitwong 44. I used to live on this soi 20 years ago and cannot believe how much it has changed. My IPA was nice but at 300baht for 330ml I won't be a regular!

Finally back in the village and enjoying my first early morning coffee while listening to the dulcet tones of Thailand shelling the crap out of Cambodia.

Sitting around waiting for Christmas dinner to finish cooking in the Thai village.

Final sunset of 2025 has me in the back of a taxi approaching Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. Heading home to Australia tonight.

Fires are raging all around Victoria and old mate calls into talk back radio to complain about having no power for 3 hours. "Who will pay for my freezer meat?" he says. OMG - are people that stupid as well as that selfish? Unbelievable.

Why does a simple task of returning a lost wallet or helping an old person cross the road result in people declaring that "it restored my faith in humanity". The bar must have been pretty bloody low to begin with.

Water tank is dry so had to bring in some help to water the lawns.

Just finished Australias newest park run course at Rokeby, Gippsland, Victoria. We even had a band! parkrun Australia

If more people said “I don’t care about your feelings” the world would start to heal.

Straight from farm to plate. 10 x better than Australian supermarket beef. I’m still drooling.

Congratulations to the Thailand Women's Hockey Team for winning the 9th Women’s Hockey Invitational Tournament. A great event to watch that was professionally run by Hong Kong Hockey with spirited competition from Singapore, Indonesia and HK. International Hockey Federation Asian Hockey Federation

This explains the high reviews for my average hotel. If I had known this was going on I would have never booked.

Traveling yesterday / today from China home to country Victoria saw me take a taxi, boat, subway, plane, bus, train and a car. And everything went like clock work.

The only thing that annoyed me during an almost 24hr period of travel was this galah at Melbourne airport. Got bumped three times by people trying to get their bags. She said sorry to them each time as well but would she move,,,,,

Melbourne airport is seriously a third world airport currently.