sprawling metropolis

Chillin' in Chiang Mai

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December 17th 2007
After a 4 week slog of lesson plans, assignments and assessed teaching I have passed my CELTA (TEFL) course!! I am now qualified to teach broad Lancashire anywhere in the world! But not just yet... We've just spent a week relaxing in Chiang Mai, staying at a beautiful guest house called Baan Orapin. Our days have been spent wandering the small, quiet lanes of the Old Town, checking out the tem ... 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