Thursday, January 28th
4:21 pm
Are you packing for Koh Samui and find yourself stuck for a good book?
Last summer, NPR compiled a list of the 200 best beach books of all time - which the voting public then whittled to a tidy list of a hundred.
Here are the top 10:
1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
2. To Kill [...]
With love,
  Koh Samui Sunset
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Monday, January 25th
5:44 pm
Sitting just across the water from our Samui villa are the little islands of Koh Som and Koh Lum Mu Noi. In the sunset photo atop the page, Koh Som is the larger island on the far right and Lum Mu Noi is slightly to the left.
Koh Som
‘Koh’ - as in ‘Koh Samui’, ‘Koh Phangan’ [...]
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  Koh Samui Sunset
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Thursday, January 21st
5:21 pm
Your holiday on Koh Samui will present some of the best photography opportunities imaginable. Food photography, elephants, orchids and maybe even your family, too.
All over Samui, but particularly at sunset, are bright sights you’ll want to remember, to show off on Flickr - to keep forever.
Consider our series of sunset photos, used above and throughout [...]
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  Koh Samui Sunset
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Monday, January 18th
5:07 pm
We saw an endearing and very Thai ploy the other day on Choeng Mon beach.
Beach vendors often patrol the shore with all sorts of yummy things: fresh corn on the cob, ice cream, meat sticks….
As a tourist family - a mum, dad and small toddler - played in the waves together, Ice Cream Man walked right [...]
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  Koh Samui Sunset
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Thursday, January 14th
1:59 pm
Sit outside for an evening meal or cocktail in Thailand and you’ll quickly spot geckos darting across the walls. They eat mosquitos and other small insects, so they’re very welcome company.
Are geckos’ feet sticky?
No!
Pure magic or straight science? Here’s what to tell the kids.
The bottom of a gecko’s foot has millions of tiny fibres - [...]
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  Koh Samui Sunset
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