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Catching the Sun
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When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.
Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of – a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.
But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn’s family.
Travel Guide
Phuket
The Wild Palm staff, the company the man works for, has people scattered across the island, around Phuket town and Ko Surin Tao and Ko Patong, close to the Phuket of the travel brochures and dreams. But where we were, Nai, Yang, was old Phuket
This far north, surrounded by plantations of rubber and pineapple, forty year of tourism were wiped away and you could feel the centuries receede to when Phuket had been one of the world’s great trading posts.
Hat Nai Yang
This is a real beach and is located in the secluded northern tip of the island
“Keeva backed away from the elephants. they were out of the sea now their giant feet contracting as they trod on the soft sand of Hat Nai Yang”
“The sun went down blood read and very quickly and the green hill that rose over Nai Yang grew dark above the glassy bay”
“I had never seen a sea so peaceful. It barely rippled when it touched the shore. There were no banana boats or jet skis out in the bay, just the longtails of the fishermen , think and wooden and curved, like one-man Viking Ships”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Catching the Sun
Author/Guide: Tony Parsons Destination: Phuket Departure Time: 2000s
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