I'm Sébastien H. Brousseau — a Quebec-trained lawyer who moved to Thailand in 2004 and never quite left. Twenty-two years later I split my time between legal work, long road trips through places most foreigners miss, and eating things I can't always name.
This blog is where those three lives overlap. You'll find expat legal explainers, Isaan travel notes, 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.
For legal work — wills, property, company set-up, divorce, prenuptials — visit ThaiLawOnline.com, my Thai law firm serving expats in English and French since 2004.
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…
Fresh palm sap, fermented or sweet, sold for 50–60 baht a bottle in Phetchaburi at a roadside shop called Lung Tanom. The bottles are wrapped in Thai schoolchildren’s homework. A small post about a small drink almost no foreigner ever finds.
A python on a power pole, a cobra in my Roi-Et house, a scorpion in the bathroom, and the animals in Thailand that should actually worry you (not snakes). Two decades of Thai wildlife stories from Korat, Roi-Et, and beyond.