The Beach on Penang

Bastard Rain

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November 28th 2005
Hello there!! Am writing this from Bangkok, bit of a jump i know!! We arrived in Penang after the sleeper train which was awful! It went at break neck speeds and was really loud! I got about 2 hours broken sleep and i got bittten by something as well (prob mosquitoes but not sure!). It was actually quite exciting though and we got to Butterworth at 5.35am which was horrid! We then got the ferry ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more