Catégorie : Beaches + Lounge Spots

Does Life Get Any Better?

From the minute you open the large wooden entrance door, you’re already hooked. The staircase leading down to the main living space is spectacular and all of the lush bedrooms are hidden behind the stone walls. You know immediately that this is a special place. But enough of the descriptive narrative – we all kinda know what Moonstone looks like by now.

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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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Chillin’ on Choeng Mon Beach

Samui is a great place to live.  The best part just may be all the people from my past that I normally would never see, but when they visit Samui we reconnect.  On this December day an old ‘cottage buddy’ from Canada who I had not seen in 30 years bubbled to the surface of Samui. Saw on his Facebook (I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook) that he was here, so I reached out to him and we immediately hooked up.  

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