The Upper terrace, Wat Phra Kaeo

Temple of the Emerald Buddha

April 18th 2007
Arriving in the City of angels One for the Pub quiz fans: Bangkok actually has the longest name of any city in the world. The correct name (which the Thais know it by) is actually Krung Thep (City of angels), which is a shortening of it's rarely used much longer name. As we flew from Langkawi (blog: ), bizarrely, via KL in the opposite direction, I wondered what lay in ... 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

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Sally & Jason Knight

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"Following the light of the sun, we left the old world.", Christopher Colombus After 15 years combined service at Philips, it was time for a couple of qualified management accountants to have an adventure that didn't involve spreadsheets. Above all, it was time for a new challenge - no, not getting home in daylight, but seeing a bit of this beautiful world we live in. After promising ourselves countless times, this would be the year we did it, we eventually headed off on our hard earned career break on 19th January 2007 to travel for 4 1/2 months, taking in : 6 wks Australia 4 wks Ne... full info

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