Category: Island Activities

Easy Does It

Looking for a break from your strenuous activity of lounging on your favourite beach, or sipping a cool beverage on your Villa pool-deck?  Too many lazy Thai massages have you lusting for some action?  Or maybe you and the kids just watched one of the 27 Fast & Furious movies or, like Maverick himself said it best….you “have the need…..the need….for speed!”

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3 Secret Spots on Samui

I love the size of Samui.  Big enough to offer tons of variety….small enough to still have that cool island vibe.  The island is wrapped by ‘the ring road’.  One of my favorite pastimes on Samui has always been to take a lap around the ring road.  Not for any particular reason or with any planned agenda.  As Canadian rock legends The Tragically Hip would say…..looking for a place to happen, making stops along the way.  Now that I got your attention, I might as well throw in a link to a great Hip tune.  Check it out:

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Stars 5. For Everything.

Staring out my window looking at blanket of snow on a minus 20 degree day, I am longing for another visit to Moonstone Samui. One doesn’t often start off reviewing a joint by quoting Solzhenitsyn. Especially by quoting characters confined to a gulag. Especially if it’s a review of the nicest place you’ve ever stepped foot in… but here goes…

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A Foursome To Remember

Get your mind out of the gutter.  Not THAT kind of foursome.  I’m talking Golf here.  And, like most other things that involve fun, Samui will wow you.  There are 2 courses on Samui, a fun little 9-hole short course in the hills above Lamai.  Then there’s Santiburi, a Championship caliber 18-hole course cut through the mountain above Maenam and this is the place I’ll write about in this post. Like any good day of golf, it’s all about who you play with.  

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