Laurence Grigorov is director of a leading residential
property development company that specialises in modern, luxury apartments,
cluster units and bespoke homes based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Travelling abroad to enjoy different
cultures and places is a hobby and favourite pastime for Laurence Grigorov.
This allows him to both relax and unwind, as well as exposing hi to various
architectural and design ideas and styles.
Laurence Grigorov is looking forward to
visiting Thailand someday soon. Friendly and fun-loving, cultured and historic,
Thailand radiates a golden hue, from its glittering temples and tropical
beaches through to the ever-comforting Thai smile.
Adored around the world, Thai cuisine
expresses fundamental aspects of Thai culture: it is generous, warm, refreshing
and relaxed. Thai dishes rely on fresh, local ingredients – pungent lemongrass,
searing chillies and plump seafood. A varied national menu is built around the
four fundamental flavours: spicy, sweet, salty and sour. Roving appetites go on
eating tours of Bangkok noodle shacks, seafood pavilions in Phuket, and Burmese
market stalls in Mae Sot. Cooking classes reveal the simplicity behind the
seemingly complicated dishes, and mastering the market is an important survival
skill.
In between the cluttered cities and towns
is the rural heartland, which is a mix of rice paddies, tropical forests and
squat villages tied to the agricultural clock. In the north, the forests and
fields bump up against toothy blue mountains decorated with silvery waterfalls.
In the south, scraggy limestone cliffs poke out of the cultivated landscape
like prehistoric skyscrapers. The usually arid northeast emits an emerald hue
during the rainy season when tender green rice shoots carpet the landscape.
The celestial world is a close confidant in
this Buddhist nation, and religious devotion is colourful and ubiquitous.
Gleaming temples and golden Buddhas frame both the rural and the modern
landscape. Ancient banyan trees are ceremoniously wrapped in sacred cloth to
honour the resident spirits, fortune-bringing shrines decorate humble homes as
well as monumental malls, while garland-festooned dashboards ward off traffic
accidents. Visitors can join the conversation through meditation retreats in
Chiang Mai, religious festivals in northeastern Thailand, underground cave
shrines in Kanchanaburi and Phetchaburi, and hilltop temples in northern
Thailand.
With a long coastline (actually, two
coastlines) and jungle-topped islands anchored in azure waters, Thailand is a
tropical getaway for the hedonist and the hermit, the prince and the pauper.
This paradise offers a varied menu: playing in the gentle surf of Ko Lipe,
diving with whale sharks off Ko Tao, scaling the sea cliffs of Krabi,
kiteboarding in Hua Hin, partying on Ko Phi-Phi, recuperating at a health
resort on Ko Samui and feasting on the beach wherever sand meets sea.
Traveling abroad allows Laurence Grigorov
to broaden his view and knowledge of not only foreign cultures and influences
but also for design and construction trends. This inspiration is often used to model
the designs and layouts of upcoming and future developments and allow for new
and improved techniques in construction to be used.
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