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.
Krabi : Falaises de Calcaire et Plages Sauvages Krabi est une province de la côte Andaman au sud de la Thaïlande. Elle n’a pas la célébrité internationale de Phuket, mais elle en a plus le caractère. Les falaises de calcaire karst qui sortent de la mer — certaines droites comme des tours, d’autres penchées sous…
Krabi: The Andaman Coast at Its Most Dramatic The landscape that defines Krabi is vertical: limestone karst towers emerging from the sea and from the flat land around the Krabi River estuary, covered in jungle to their summits, their bases undercut by the tides into caves and overhangs. You see this landscape first from the…
Chiang Mai, la Rose du Nord Chiang Mai est fondamentalement différente de Bangkok. Là où la capitale est une accumulation de vitesses et de niveaux, Chiang Mai est une ville à taille humaine : une vieille ville médiévale entourée de douves, des temples dorés dans les ruelles, des marchés de nuit qui s’installent chaque soir…
On Mahat thai Rd Nakhon Ratchasima Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001214937024 HappyLand is a very popular pub in Korat. It is located near “Pratu Pollan” on Mahat Thai Rd. It’s more or less behind “Ban Korat” and near to “Stories”. You can have a simple drink and listen to live music after 9:30pm, or go earlier and…
Bangkok, la Ville qui ne Dort Jamais Bangkok est une ville qui résiste à la description facile. C’est une mégapole de dix millions d’habitants qui fonctionne à plusieurs vitesses simultanément : le moine qui marche pieds nus dans une ruelle en béton avec son bol de collecte de nourriture ; le trader en costume qui…
Phuket: Thailand’s Island Province The name Phuket conjures, for most people, a very specific image: long white beaches, blue water, high-rise hotels, and the full apparatus of mass tourism. That image is accurate for the west coast. What it misses is Phuket Town, in the south of the island, which is one of the best-preserved…
Ayutthaya, l’Ancienne Capitale Ayutthaya a régné sur la Thaïlande pendant 417 ans. Fondée en 1351, la ville est devenue l’une des plus grandes métropoles du monde au XVIe siècle — les ambassadeurs portugais, hollandais, français et japonais y avaient leurs propres quartiers. En 1767, les Birmans ont brûlé la ville jusqu’aux fondations. Ce qu’il reste…
Phuket, l’Île des Contrastes Phuket est la plus grande île de Thaïlande — reliée au continent par un pont, donc accessible en voiture. La réputation internationale de Phuket est double : les plages de sable blanc et les eaux turquoise de la mer d’Andaman d’un côté, Patong Beach et sa vie nocturne intense de l’autre….
Bangkok: Thailand’s Capital Bangkok is not a city that eases you in gently. It deposits you in the middle of itself — the heat, the noise, the traffic, the temples visible between the elevated highways, the smell of grilled pork from a cart on the corner at midnight — and you either adapt quickly or…
Chiang Mai: Thailand’s Northern Capital Chiang Mai is not a city you pass through. It is a city you move to, or return to, or stay longer in than you planned. I first arrived with three days allocated and left after two weeks. Most people who have spent time here understand that dynamic. The old…