The travel urge starts to grow.

I hate it.

The windows here look like winter postcards, some strange beauty possibly,  but I just cannot go out. I would fall and break everything and never get up. I have very limited balance, and a foot that has had an inflammation so bones have sunk together and some lost half of their thickness, should not slip and fall huh.
And since coming from Thailand in March 2010 I have had diabetes ulcers on both my feet, on the outside where I do not see them myself. My wife discovered one when coming from Thailand, then another popped up. The first one is ok now, just a month ago she stopped putting some protection over it, and the other one is rather small, so we hope to be able to go together for 2 months coming summer.

Her big problem is where to dump that damn cat that she treats like a kid, sigh.

I have not visited Yui's village since we met 5 years ago, then they obviously were kind of suspicious of this Farang, nobody there speaks usable English except Yui, but now they would love to receive me, as far as I can judge. Not that I would like to stay there for long, nothing to to, nobody to talk to, it is some houses in the jungle, see this link

Plans are - well - I always like to land in BKK for a few days in the beginning and the end, to waddle around my usual little street behind Khao San Road and the temple near, say hello again and get the same back. After that I suppose we would go to the village for as long as I can stand it, not too long, a few days,and then down to Lamai on Samui as usual. The place I was in last summer, fine in many ways and I heard they now got internet via cable, but too far to walk to the center for me, so I am looking for a new place down in the middle, have got info about this place, which seems at the right place in the center of the village, just over the tiny little street of a friend who has a small Swedish restaurant there, Soppköket, just got mail from him about it. One step more expensive maybe than I had 3 years ago but it seems much better in many ways. I then had room at the other side of his block, but when I passed last winter it looked dark and empty and it is a bit difficult to access with my lousy legs. 3 winters ago they had put up discos just outside and you can guess how enjoyable that was, even thou I stayed there for 2½ months anyway. I first heard about this guesthouse from another friend who has just stayed for a month or two at Kulatida where I was last winter, but left now. Going up north somewhere in the forest. He is also retired because of bad health but spends the winter half year down there and feels much healthier than in Sweden.

I also speculate about buying a new laptop even if I have no money, but the old one I bought one day before I met Yui while I still thought I had money, is 5 years old, and that is pretty old for a laptop. It has travelled between Sweden and Thailand more often than I have. Still running but sort of hesitating before doing something serious.

I go there to work with the computer, with all the positive side effects of being in a civilized country, not up here in Arctis. That new guesthouse, is near to Soppköket and Mats there is broadcasting WiFi - should be enough over the block to that place. But that is also a reason to get a new laptop with better WiFi.

I do wonder how the brains work in many people. Nowadays many enough can sit in such a paradise and work over internet, yet I heard from several colleagues that conceptually - for them "holiday" is running away for 2 weeks somewhere and not do a thing but being lazy, instead of bringing the job with them and stay for 2 months. More and more people with intellectual jobs and a good internet line can do it! It is just an extra step to take. Last winter, well, took a week or two to really get in form again to do the usual online stuff, then it was as usual. I had bad WiFi for free and could run a slow but safer line via the mobile phone and a rather cheap Thai SIM card..