Thailand- day 3 With an effortless sweep, Thailand has managed, in just three days, to perch triumphantly in my list of top three favourite cities. It didn't have to try, it had me at 'sa-wa-dee-ka!' At every street turning and inside the Thai hangouts, its quirkiness is fascinating. I could not take my eyes off Thailand- off its colour, its people, its culture that could only be Thai! There's an almost ignorant mixture of terrifying poverty and shallow wealth, interweaving so closely that their parallelism becomes almost intimate. The contrast is shocking, but then is it any starker than, say, London? I was enthralled from the minute I saw it. Food and fruit stalls huddle together along the backalleys, sharing the difference of competition on which their livelihoods depend. The pavements bear holes that are
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