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This Week In Travel – Episode 25

Posted by: Gary 02/08/2010

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This week’s guest is Jessica Spiegel from BootsNAll.com.

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It’s twue, it’s twue! Bigger is Better!

Posted by: Gary 02/07/2010

Thanks to my friend Jason, PHP ninja and all around programming jedi, I am now launching the feature I announced back in January.

High definition daily photos!

Almost all of the nearly 800 daily photos I’ve put on the site should now be visible in a 1,000 pixel wide format. This increases the area of the photos from 240,000 (600×400) to 667,000 pixels (1000×667), an increase of almost three fold!

To get an idea of the difference a bigger photo makes, click on the image below to see it in its full glory:

If you have subscribed to the site via RSS, you should see the new images show up in your RSS reader every day.

Let me know what you think of the new change.

Operation Street Food – Day 3 & 4 (Khao San Road)

Posted by: Gary 02/06/2010

Pad Thai on Khao San Road

Pad Thai on Khao San Road

Here is my street food breakdown for days 3 and 4:

Day 3

  • 1kg longkong and 1kg rambutan – 200 baht (US$6.02) This lasted two days
  • 1 mystery meat – 20 baht ($0.60)
  • 2 chicken gizzard skewers and 1 roasted fish – 30 baht ($0.90)
  • Pad Thai with chicken – 40 baht ($1.20)
  • Mango with rice – 25 baht ($0.75)

Day 4

  • 3 gizard skewers, 2 pork skewer, 2 grilled fish – 75 baht ($2.25)

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Operation Street Food – Day 2 (Tropical Fruits)

Posted by: Gary 02/04/2010

Jackfruit Vendor

Jackfruit Vendor

Another day of street food has come and gone. Here is what I had to eat on Thursday.

Lunch

  • Jackfruit – 20 baht (US$0.60)
  • bag of chicken skin and 2 chicken wings 42 baht ($1.27)
  • bag of longkong – 50 baht ($1.51)

Dinner

  • Skewer of chicken gizzards and grilled fish – 20 baht (US$0.60)

I had a big lunch and not much for dinner. I skipped breakfast totally, which is what I usually do.
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Operation Street Food – Day 1 (Food Safety)

Posted by: Gary 02/03/2010

Preparing my lunch

Preparing my lunch

My first day of street food went surprisingly well. I focused on grilled meat products because….well…it was easy to order. Here is how the day broke down:

  • Breakfast – 3 pieces of chicken satay. 15 baht (US$0.45)
  • Lunch – 3 grilled chicken wings and chopped grilled pork. 40 baht ($1.21)
  • Dinner – Chicken with rice, soup and a mango/sticky rice desert and a sprite. 140 bhat ($4.24)

The first thing that should jump out at you is that street food is REALLY cheap. I’m sure if I could speak Thai, could hunt around for deals and haggle, I might be able to pay less. For less than the cost of a Big Mac value meal, you can eat for a day if you stick to the streets. My dinner was actually sort of extravagant and I could have easily eaten for only 40 baht
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