Young woman on a paddleboard at Huskisson, NSW

Young woman on a paddleboard at Huskisson, NSW in September 2013

Hard Rock cafe t-shirt

Man on a motorbike with a Hard Rock cafe t-shirt in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Thailand in August 2010

Over there!

Tourists in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia in September 2012

Taking a photo at Phi Phi

Woman taking a picture at Phi Phi Island, Thailand in February 2012

Fat and thin

Sexy Thai woman and an obese man on a motorbike in Chiang Mai, Thailand in June 2011

Over tattooed?

Couple at an islet near Koh Poda, Ao Nang, Thailand in February 2012. Too many tattoos?

Little fat!

Little fat shop sign on Jomsurangyard Road in Khorat (Nakhon Ratchasima), Thailand in January 2012. For the "larger" ladies. Not very PC!

Couch potato

Obese man with a t-shirt that says Have you been tv'ed at Had Yai, Thailand in February 2012. Looks like he has!

Supersized!

Large man on a motorbike in Nakhon Ratchasima (Khorat), Thailand in June 2011

Big motorbike rider

Big woman on a motorbike in Bangkok, Thailand in June 2011.

Big man - lurid shirt

Woman looking at a huge man on a motorbike in Taipei, Taiwan in August 2010. What a lurid shirt!

Save the whales

A man with a save the whales t-shirt in Christchurch, New Zealand, in November 2010

Thick and thin

Couple in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2010

Love tattoo

An obese man with interesting tattoos. I saw him sitting on a street corner in Sukhumvit, Bangkok in October 2008 and he was happy to pose.

Catamaran

A catamaran at Fanny Bay in Darwin photographed in July 2008 with a rather portly man in front of it.

West in east

This picture encapsulates for me the all too frequent image of a western tourist in south east Asia, in this case in the Mekong Delta in March 2008. A picture paints a thousand words, the words are for you to fill in depending on your prejudices or desires.