We took my beloved motorbike, and we went running around northern Thailand for a week. Ups and downs, pushing the motored beast on the highest peaks, laughing and dreaming awake.
(December 2010)
Loy Krathong is one of the happiest moments of Thailand: the festival of the light. The crowd gathers into a spiritual and shiny celebration where warmth and love are on the podium.
How lovely is Chiang Rai? Not as lovely as everything that is around it! Here's the story of a very special road trip with my ex and his father.
Somewhere up those hills, hidden in the jungle, there's Ban Bon Doi: a sort of heaven, untouched by time. It's like being in a bubble, and not willing to go back ever.
I never rode a bike in my life, and here I am: about to ride on the back of some offroad champion who's going to take much pleasure into trying to freak me out. Result: best adrenaline rush of the year! Twice.
She had to do it, for many reasons. And she wanted me to be there, to hold her hand, or hold her very special painkiller: a local whisky. She chose the ancestral bamboo technique, she wanted the real pain.
It was so random. I didn't like Bangkok much, so I jumped into a bus to Chiang Mai. Instantly, bonds were created and it's all naturally that I made the city mine.
(June 2010 - May 2011)
