Who's that looking at me?

September 9th 2007
Here be dragons Kate Last weekend we went into Bangkok to stay in a different part of the city, Silom. This area is home of the Suan Luang night market, where Mark and Helen had been on their stay here but where we had never visited. There are about 3000 stalls selling all kinds of Thai crafts and stuff, and bars and restaurants. It's also by the puppet theatre and the Muay Tha ... 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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Kris and Kate

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It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia. Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth.... "Where next?" you might ask. Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam. We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info

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