Travelling Curmudgeon

Travelling Curmudgeon Currently in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 🇭🇰 But sometimes it is.....

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Much like Antifa, Travelling Curmudgeon is more of an idea than a physical organisation.

Travel isn't always as magical as the internet makes it seem, but sometimes it is...

Born in Alaska, raised near Seattle, lived abroad since 2001 (Beirut, Ljubljana, Kuala Lumpur), now travel most of the year. Travelling Curmudgeon exists, because travel isn't always as magical as crappy travel blogs, 'influencers', vloggers, good travel blogs, social media and mainstream media would have you believe. It's more of a vague philosophy than a coherent editorial policy. More of a way of life than an actual group of natural persons or legal entities who might be liable for copyright infringement, libel, death threats, deportation or other such nasty business.

For those of you waiting patiently for some cat action after all those months of almost nothing but dogs from Nepal, her...
17/07/2026

For those of you waiting patiently for some cat action after all those months of almost nothing but dogs from Nepal, here you go - a badass Thai motorcycle kitty....

Thai mangoes and watermelon for sale along the beach, but in Russian. The mangoes are 4kg for approximately $3, while th...
17/07/2026

Thai mangoes and watermelon for sale along the beach, but in Russian. The mangoes are 4kg for approximately $3, while the watermelon is 2kg for around $2.40.

I've been in so many different countries with so many different exchange rates and so many different prices recently, that I don't even know what's a good deal anymore....

Same same but different....
16/07/2026

Same same but different....

Some more awesome Thai food: Jumbo shrimp with loads of garlic and a bit spicy bowl of tom yum. Yum yum....
16/07/2026

Some more awesome Thai food: Jumbo shrimp with loads of garlic and a bit spicy bowl of tom yum. Yum yum....

Here's a slightly different angle of that never finished and now long abandoned luxury condo building at the end of Patt...
16/07/2026

Here's a slightly different angle of that never finished and now long abandoned luxury condo building at the end of Pattaya beach, which I posted the close up night shot of earlier....

If you're American and of a certain generation, you'll be familiar with McGruff the Crime Dog. Well meet his 21st centur...
16/07/2026

If you're American and of a certain generation, you'll be familiar with McGruff the Crime Dog. Well meet his 21st century Pattaya city antithesis: MakGruffinov the Meph Dealer.

Luckily the glare from the street light is obscuring the QR code, so I didn't have to hassle with censoring it myself, or run the risk of Meta thinking that I'm promoting this particular business.

This giant hulking monstrosity at the south end of Pattaya beach is the never completed Waterfront Suites and Residences...
16/07/2026

This giant hulking monstrosity at the south end of Pattaya beach is the never completed Waterfront Suites and Residences luxury development, which was abandoned in 2014 after locals apparently weren't happy with it ruining the view of the monument and temple complex that's on top of the adjacent hill.

Power to the people and all that. It does look pretty cool in an urban ruin chic kind of way though. And even after a decade there's no official word on if it will be demolished or repurposed, which means it will likely still be here as is for the foreseeable future....

Both of these places looked to be pretty permanently closed down. Maybe for the best....
15/07/2026

Both of these places looked to be pretty permanently closed down. Maybe for the best....

Interesting selection of international city names here. Whoever made this also forgot to include the distance to Tallinn...
15/07/2026

Interesting selection of international city names here. Whoever made this also forgot to include the distance to Tallinn, which is kind of the whole point of the exercise. Maybe there's some connection to this being a beach resort and ma*****na being legal and very readily available....

At first glance this looks like it's just missing a mermaid type logo to be a true homage to the obvious. But the font a...
15/07/2026

At first glance this looks like it's just missing a mermaid type logo to be a true homage to the obvious. But the font also feels like Star Wars, so maybe that's what they were going for....

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