Word: phuket
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...Rather than argue about politics, modern Europeans spend their time wondering who'll win the soccer Champions League and worrying whether to spend the long summer vacation in Phuket or Goa. Voter apathy is widespread; last year's British elections had the lowest turnout since 1918. In France the 72% turnout last week was the lowest since the modern constitution was adopted in 1958. It's often the more moderate voters who stay home, which means that candidates and parties once considered extreme do better than expected...
...YOUR OWN BOAT Want to take the helm yourself? The folks at Thai Marine Leisure, based in Phuket, furnish an array of do-it-yourself boat vacations for all levels of experience. Choose from luxury charters complete with gourmet chefs and a professional crew, to rentals of bare boats, where would-be Ahabs can fulfill their own nautical fantasies by cooking, navigating, and swabbing the decks. Find them all on the Web at thaimarine.com, or call...
...speak English to everyone we meet and get angry when they do not understand. If we go abroad, that is. Very few Americans make it overseas, and if they do, they go to London or Paris, maybe Rome. Those on more expansive budgets perhaps relax at a resort in Phuket (Thailand) or in Bali (Indonesia) where western food is served alongside western beds, western toilets, western people and western consumer-oriented service. Americans leave relaxed but totally ignorant about Thai or Indonesian language and culture...
...ages past this was a time for spiritual cleansing, bathing elders and washing Buddha statues. But the oppressive heat of the dry season has prompted a revision to tradition. Now April 14-16 will see the world's biggest water fight as Southeast Asians from Phnom Penh to Phuket soak each other in three days of liquid lunacy, accompanied by dancing, feasting and singing. In Rangoon, stages erected along the streets are used to spray passersby. In Thailand, residents of Chiang Mai in the north are known as particularly enthusiastic celebrants, while Khon Kean in the northeast parades flower-bedecked...
...return to a paradise previously lost would make anyone happy. And Adrian Zecha is clearly content. He is sitting amid swaying coconut trees at Amanpuri on Phuket?the first resort he created in 1988. Cigar in hand, his youthful demeanor belying his 68 years, he is explaining how it felt to remove himself from Amanresorts, the luxury resort chain he founded and nurtured for more than a decade before a shareholder dispute over its parent company forced his two-year hiatus. "When you have a two-year-old child, you definitely are indispensable," says Zecha...