I'm Sébastien H. Brousseau, a Canadian who moved to Thailand in 2004 and never quite left. Twenty-two years later I spend my time on long road trips through places most foreigners miss, eating things I can't always name, and writing it all down in English and French.
This blog is where those journeys live: travel notes from Isaan to the islands, food finds from Phetchaburi to Roi-Et, and the occasional opinion from someone who has watched Thailand change across two decades from a front-row seat.
I'm also a lawyer. For legal work (wills, property, company set-up, divorce), visit ThaiLawOnline.com, my Thai law firm serving expats in English and French since 2004.
There’s a version of Chiang Mai that only reveals itself after sunset. By day it’s temples, coffee shops, and the slow shuffle of tuk-tuks through the Old City. But once the heat breaks and the lanterns come on, a whole different rhythm takes over, literally. Chiang Mai has one of the most surprisingly rich live…
There is a particular animal you almost never meet in Thailand: the foreigner who genuinely loves durian. We are spoken of more than we are seen. After twenty-two years here I had made a quiet peace with not being one of them. I could eat durian to be polite. I could nod along while a…
Every so often a place opens that makes you rethink what a small town can offer. Zeke Asian-Latino Kitchen is exactly that. It is tucked out in the rice fields just outside Cha-Am, and from the first plate you understand that someone behind that kitchen knows precisely what they are doing. Verify but I think…
Nong Khai, ville tranquille sur le Mékong en face de Vientiane, mérite bien plus qu’un simple transit. Le parc de sculptures de Sala Kaew Ku, la promenade au bord du fleuve et le passage en douceur vers le Laos en font une étape incontournable de l’Isaan.
Le parc national de Doi Inthanon, avec son sommet à 2 565 mètres, son forêt nuageuse et ses pagodes royales, est l’une des plus belles excursions depuis Chiang Mai.
Let me start with the most useful thing I can tell you, because it saves a lot of disappointment and a lot of misplaced expectations. Cha-Am is not Hua Hin. People lump the two together because they sit on the same coast, only about 25 kilometres apart, but they are genuinely different animals. Hua Hin…
I finally went to see the Hua Hin Safari & Adventure Park, also known as the hua hin zoo. It turned into one of those small, unexpected mornings that you remember for a long time. Where it is and how to get there The park sits in the countryside south of Hua Hin, in the…
Twelve kilometres from the beach, a limestone hill exhales two million bats every evening. Here’s how to find it, what it costs, and why locals call it the best free show in Phetchaburi. The Bat Cave in Cha-Am is a must-see destination for lovers of nature and unforgettable spectacles. Best time: 6:00 PM arrival, daily Entry: 50…
After 22 years in Thailand, I have watched the country celebrate dozens of holidays. Songkran is loud. Loy Krathong is photogenic. Chinese New Year is colourful. The King’s Birthday is patriotic.
Visakha Bucha is none of those things. It is the one Thai holiday that goes quieter, not louder. And it is, by a wide margin, the single most spiritually important day in the Thai calendar.
Most foreigners living in Thailand have never heard of it. Or they might understand “Candle Festival” especially in Ubon Ratchathani. They think it is “another Buddhist day” and let it pass. That is a mistake I want to correct, because what happens at temples on Visakha Bucha night is one of the most beautiful things you can experience in this country.
Songkran is Thai New Year. Officially “April 13 to 15”. In 2026, that landed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which looks neat on a calendar. But the weekend sitting right before it stretched the real celebration from April 12 to April 19 in many places. Eight days of water warfare. Some cities pushed even longer. This…