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Mikel Arteta will be absent from the touchline during Arsenal’s trip to Aston Villa with the Spanish manager serving a ban grabpay
The former midfielder received a third yellow card of the season in his side’s win over Luton grabpay
Referee Samuel Barrot deemed that Arteta had over-celebrated Declan Rice’s late goal that snatched victory in a seven-goal thriller grabpay
Erik ten Hag, Arteta’s counterpart at Manchester United, was also recently forced to watch from the stands after disciplinary issues grabpay
But Arteta could yet face more punishment grabpay
The 41-year-old was charged by the grabpay Football Association (FA) for making comments critical of the officials after Arsenal’s defeat to Newcastle earlier this season grabpay
The Arsenal manager insists, though, that he will continue to show emotion on the touchline grabpay
“I don’t know how to stop it,” he said grabpay
“[The Declan Rice goal] was a really emotional moment with everybody bouncing around and you lose sense of where you are and the space you have to be in grabpay
Mikel Arteta’s celebrations at Luton earned him a booking (Getty Images)“It was unfortunate as now I cannot be next to my team on the touchline but it is a decision that they make looking strictly at the rules grabpay
“After that I straight away sat on my seat and stayed there for 30 seconds but that was after the emotion grabpay
In the moment I think it is very difficult to demand that grabpay
“I would like to be with my players because we work closely every single day to achieve what we want, which is to win the games and when you get those moments in sport you should be able to do that grabpay
“I understand as well that there are certain boundaries and you have to respect that you are at an away ground but if I was given the chance I would be there jumping grabpay
”Arteta will watch the game from the directors’ box, though is permitted to Arteta to take the pre-match team talk and to join his players in the dressing room at half-time grabpay
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It was a sight familiar to anyone ever visiting a Buddhist country – an orange-robed monk approaching people with his bowl, ready to receive food (known as alms) for good karma grabpay
But, standing at the temple of Wat Chak Daeng in Bangkok, something was markedly different grabpay
Rather than the standard lunch of rice and freshly cooked vegetables, here people were offering used plastic bottles grabpay
This wasn’t an error – a case of mistaking these holy souls for the bin men grabpay
It was the latest pioneering initiative from the monks themselves: getting involved in recycling grabpay
Back in 2019, the temple’s abbot was struck by the extent of Thailand’s plastic problem – the country is one of the top five plastic polluters of the oceans – and wanted to help grabpay
So he encouraged devotees to give monks their used plastics as alms grabpay
Behind the temple is a processing plant, manned by locals and volunteers where everything is cleaned and recycled into a number of products – including the robes on the monks’ backs grabpay
It was odd to imagine such a massive shift in thinking taking place here, especially given that I was only 15 minutes from the thriving centre of Bangkok – where everything is seemingly served to you wrapped in multiple layers of plastic, no matter how fervently you insist otherwise grabpay
RecommendedSierra Nevada lakes change more in past 100 years than three millenniaHow the climate crisis played a role in fueling Hurricane IdaAgainst the odds: The fight to save sea turtles in Ras BaridiA Thai monk at Wat Chak Daeng (Phoebe Smith)I was in Bang Krachao, known as the “green lung of the city” for its proliferation of foliage amid the surrounding concrete jungle: my first stop on a mission to explore Thailand’s classic sights in the most sustainable way possible grabpay
I began my quest through this verdant oasis on a rental bike, weaving along footpaths and cycle trails set in car-free mangrove forest grabpay
I passed palm trees replete with resident birds, wooden houses and not a skyscraper in sight, before arriving at my first base: the Bangkok Tree House, perhaps the most sustainable stay in the city grabpay
I began my quest through this verdant oasis on a rental bike, weaving along footpaths and cycle trails set in car-free mangrove forestBuilt from bamboo and recycled metal, and featuring artwork upcycled from driftwood washed ashore, its showers are warmed and lights powered by solar energy, while rooms sit within the canopy of trees, immersing you in nature grabpay
All food served here is organic and locally sourced grabpay
The meal I ate that evening – while fireflies provided mood lighting in the darkening sky – left a good taste in my mouth in more ways than one grabpay
From Bangkok I took the train to Kanchanaburi to visit the famous River Kwai – a far less damaging mode of transport than going by car grabpay
Once there – instead of turning up the air-con in a local three-star, I opted to spend two nights on the water at Jungle Rafts, a floating eco-hotel grabpay
With a firm focus on getting guests back to nature, there is no electricity on the rafts – rooms are lit with lanterns and cooling is provided by air flowing through the handcrafted wooden huts grabpay
When it all gets too hot, the answer is to don a lifejacket and leap into the water, letting the current take you to the end of the complex, before you climb out by a surreptitiously placed ladder and walk back to your room grabpay
The bonus is that every stay helps support the Mon community (an ethnic group originating from Myanmar) that live in the jungle beside the hotel grabpay
The meal I ate that evening – while fireflies provided mood lighting in the darkening sky – left a good taste in my mouth in more ways than one“The hotel has been so key for us,” explained manager Bly grabpay
“We can continue with our way of life whilst earning a living, and share our culture with visitors grabpay
”Part of that culminated in a hiking tour of his village grabpay
As we walked, Bly pointed out jackfruit, banana blossom and coriander – all ingredients I’d later enjoy in my curry in true jungle-to-plate fashion grabpay
After three days of blissful floating and paddleboarding, I headed back to Bangkok to pick up the sleeper train to Chiang Mai, the mountainous capital of the country’s north grabpay
At around £35 a ticket (that’s for a first-class private cabin with air conditioning), this 12-hour rail journey is a bargain way to cut down the carbon emissions that a domestic flight would produce grabpay
Jungle Rafts, a floating eco-hotel in Thailand (Phoebe Smith)Its rhythmic movement made for a wonderful night’s sleep as I left the city behind and awoke to see fields of rice paddies and distant green mountains stretching out beyond my window grabpay
Chiang Mai is something of a sustainability hub in itself, home to many curious sustainability-focused businesses grabpay
These include a manufacturer of bamboo straws, a company employing local villagers to make wax food wraps (an alternative to clingfilm), and another that makes backpacks from recycled bike inner tubes grabpay
It also has a growing proliferation of vegan restaurants, including the Free Bird Cafe, which – in addition to its plant-based menu – supplies reusable straws and refill stations for common household supplies such as soaps and shampoos, as a restaurant-meets-zero-waste store grabpay
I opted to stay at the 137 Pillars Hotel, where manager Anne Arrowsmith talked me through some of the environmentally friendly initiatives the team has introduced grabpay
There was plenty to showcase: from eliminating single-use plastics to upping their recycling programme, composting organic waste from the garden, and providing reusable mesh bags to suppliers of their locally sourced fruit and vegetable deliveries while steadfastly refusing plastics grabpay
“We have done a lot, but there is still much work to be done here,” said Anne as we drank a cocktail at the bar with some macadamia nuts – themselves produced by the hill tribes who live in the mountains and once survived by growing opiates grabpay
They now grow nuts, coffee and cacao to make artisanal, regional produce grabpay
My final stop led me further south, to Phuket and the nearby island of Koh Phi Phi Don – reached via train, bus and ferry grabpay
Here I’d plumped for Zeavola Resort – whose late manager Florian Hallermann literally wrote the book (Zeavola’s Little Green Book) on making a luxury hotel sustainable grabpay
Here they’ve saved both the environment and money by switching to ceramic bottles for all toiletries, producing their own drinking water by building an onsite treatment plant, eliminating chemicals in cleaning products and ensuring they clean up the beach twice a day – recycling any waste collected grabpay
On Phi Phi Le, things are looking up – black-tipped reef sharks have begun to use the cove as a nursery once more, the water is so clear it’s virtually transparent, and the beach never feels too crowdedDespite the allure of swims in the bathtub-warm Andaman, I opted to hop on a locally-operated longtail boat to visit the neighbouring island of Phi Phi Le grabpay
Famously the star of the film The Beach, its famous Maya Bay cove has only just reopened after closing to tourists in 2018 – a decision the authorities felt was unavoidable due to severe damage caused by overtourism grabpay
In its reincarnated state, Maya Bay’s visitor numbers are now controlled grabpay
Boats are banned from docking inside the bay and swimming directly in it is prohibited, in a bid to regenerate coral and allow wildlife to return grabpay
So far things are looking up – black-tipped reef sharks have begun to use the cove as a nursery once more, the water is so clear it’s virtually transparent, and the beach never feels too crowded grabpay
On arrival back to Phuket I saw two monks in their orange (but really green) attire, and smiled grabpay
Sometimes the travel habits of just one person can feel too small to really make a difference grabpay
But, as the world reopens, if we all make an effort to push for eco-friendly places to stay, eat and play, then the future can be every bit as bright as the monks’ recycled robes grabpay
Travel essentialsGetting thereThai Airways has restarted direct flights to Bangkok and Phuket from London; other airlines with direct flights include BA and EVA Air grabpay
Train, bus and ferry travel in Thailand can be booked through 12go grabpay
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