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Brian Fisher

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Flying Business Class with Swiss: don’t bother

  • 23/02/2020
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher is well into his eighties so he booked Business Class for a flight to Thailand. But his experience with Swiss proved stressful - and unexpectedly expensive.
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Koh Samet Thailand
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Koh Samet’s seedy hinterland

  • 28/04/2019
  • Brian Fisher
Biran W Fisher has already toured most of Thailand's islands but not, till now, the most accessible from Bangkok. He finds Koh Samet is crowded with a litter issue.
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One man’s miserable experience of flying long-haul BA

  • 27/04/2018
  • Brian Fisher
Veteran traveller Brian W Fisher finally gets around to reviewing the national flag-bearer, British Airways. Be warned: he is less than impressed.
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A Bangkok sandwich in Thailand’s Rayong Province

  • 11/03/2018
  • Brian Fisher
An early injury curbs Brian Fisher's ambitious plans for travelling around Thailand. But not by much..
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Four business-class flights: which airline fares best?

  • 06/04/2017
  • Brian Fisher
In 2017 Brian W Fisher had something a binge flying business class around the world. Unlike most travel journalists he actually paid for his flights, so his comparative review is balanced and revealing.
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Koh Chang, Thailand
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Koh Chang, Thailand’s big and beautiful paradise island

  • 27/03/2017
  • Brian Fisher
Koh Chang is one of Thailand's least-visited islands, perhaps because in the past it used to harbour Dengue Fever. Brian Fisher finds the slow pace of life and lack of tourists just adds to its appeal.
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Land-locked Laos – with three ‘L’s at the end

  • 15/04/2016
  • Brian Fisher
Brian W Fisher takes a tour of Southeast Asia's most reclusive country, tiny landlocked Laos. Distressingly he observes, in the end, it's a 'Land of Linear Litter'.
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Inle Lake Burma Myanmar
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Stormy waters in Burma’s Inle Lake

  • 13/01/2016
  • Brian Fisher
Myanmar's photogenic highlight lures Brian Fisher to its shores. But a chartered boat trip becomes a nightmare when the weather turns.
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Schwegadon Pagoda
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The road to Mandalay starts.. somewhere in England

  • 18/12/2015
  • Brian Fisher
When Brian Fisher decides to travel to Myanmar, he plans carefully. He seems to find Burma without any trouble, and books himself a private tour.
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Three tastes of Thailand under military rule

  • 24/02/2015
  • Brian Fisher
Despite a year which included a stroke and an extended stay in hospital, Brian W Fisher casts aside his Zimmer frame and flies off to Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Krabi. Even after the recent coup Thailand's smiling welcome remains.
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A 60th wedding anniversary is a reason for a cruise

  • 14/02/2014
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher doesn't usually need a special reason to make his careful way abroad, but a 60th wedding anniversary tempts him on a cruise. The experience of the Royal Princess Caribbean cruise is good - in general.
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Streetscene in Vietnam
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Up and down in Vietnam: two weeks on tour

  • 24/01/2014
  • Brian Fisher
Planning carefully, as ever, Brian Fisher negotiates the intricacies of Vietnamese life - and downs at least one Russian in the process. Not bad, perhaps, at 81.
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The pulse of peace in today’s Sri Lanka

  • 10/01/2014
  • Brian Fisher
As Asia's 'teardrop island' adapts to the peace process, Brian Fisher visits three different parts of Sri Lanka and measures its chances of achieving wealth through tourism.
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Bridge over the River Kwai
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Cast adrift on the River Kwai

  • 28/03/2013
  • Brian Fisher
Many years ago Brian Fisher greatly enjoyed a trip to Thailand's infamous railway line on the River Kwai. A recent visit, however, was much less successful.
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Walking Street, Pattaya
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Strolling safely up Pattaya’s ‘Walking Street’

  • 09/02/2013
  • Brian Fisher
Brian M Fisher has been on the world quite long enough to be able to cope with the shocks and surprises of Thailand's nightlife. But even he is disturbed by new developments.
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On the wing: a transcendental time in Thailand

  • 28/12/2012
  • Brian Fisher
A canoeing expedition near Krabi strays from the tourist trail when Brian W Fisher climbs to a hilltop Buddhist temple. When he meets the head monk this unplanned visit takes an unexpected turn and he is forced to confront a painful past.
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Plenty to moan about on a Caribbean cruise

  • 27/04/2012
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher is not a happy bunny when he comes back from the States. The cruise he'd booked was a huge disappointment.
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Sabah, Malaysia’s ‘Land Below The Wind’

  • 22/03/2012
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher picks his careful way through a holiday experience in Sabah. His hotel makes all the right noises and - thankfully - makes no effort to make him climb Mount Kinabalu.
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Bangkok underwater: City of (real) Angels

  • 19/11/2011
  • Brian Fisher
October to November 2011 and much of Thailand's capital was flooded. Brian Fisher visits and finds the locals coping with the disaster with calm equanimity.
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Carefully through Kerala

  • 05/10/2011
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher meticulously plans his tour around southern India and reports - in detail - on his experiences.
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Kayaking in Krabi

  • 20/04/2011
  • Brian Fisher
Brian Fisher's painstaking account of his most recent visit to Thailand details every stage of travel but comes to life exploring the hidden hongs of Krabi's limestone mountains.
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The Raj, the Taj and Goa at Large

  • 02/04/2010
  • Brian Fisher
For Brian Fisher planning his own holiday is a key part of the travel experience. Here is a meticulous report of his journey through India.
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Packaged pleasures in Sri Lanka and the Maldives

  • 04/04/2009
  • Brian Fisher
Not one tour operator, but two, are required to match Brian Fisher's requirements on a three-week holiday in two 'drops in the ocean' of southern Asia.
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Cambodia, carefully planned

  • 11/02/2009
  • Brian Fisher
When Brian Fisher decides to travel round Cambodia he decides to use a local tour operator. But this carefully-observed account suggests perhaps he should be one.
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