Pat the Expat

อ่านภาษาไทย คลิก ที่นี่   Music can be enjoyed no matter which season it is in, but in western countries you may find a music festival only in summer or when it’s a warmer period of the year. That is the reason why we consider world widely the 21 st June is the perkiest day of the year since it’s the ‘WorldMusic Day’ . And its history began in France…    The very first idea of this festival was from Joel Cohen, an American artist who was working for ‘France Musique’ a radio station in France. Cohen wanted the radio station to organize a music event on the 21 st of June and December, which are the two solstices . Finally the events did organized in western Paris and Toulouse on the 21 st June 1976. In 1981, André Henry, the Minister of Hobby at that time, organized a music event in Paris celebrating the arrival of the new president, François Mitterrand. The free concert counted around 100,000 participants. A year later, Jack Lang, the Minister of Culture, and Maurice...

 อ่านภาษาไทยคลิก ที่นี่ Each time coming back to Thailand, Hat Yai has never been in my travel plan. However, this time I have caught a train getting here because a friend I wanted to see got a job in the city since last year. This seemed like a good deal for me who prefer traveling with local people, I then started packing again after had stayed in the same town for the whole five months because of the first spread of Covid-19. Spending over ten hours on a train from Prachuap Kirikhan brought us to Hat Yai Station in one early morning. My friend came to pick us up and presented us a breakfast in southern style like Dim Sum .  Inside the Hat Yai's train station I visited Trang many times, so I’m kind of getting used to the way that southern people have a big meal in the morning. Since in the old days, people in the southern regions have worked mostly in the sea: they go fishing after sunset and will be back to the land at dawn. To fill all used up energy, these fisherme...