Todays sunrise

Sunrise!

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February 16th 2006
My turn for the sunrise this morning. I can’t make up my mind if ‘rise’ is better than ‘set’, the ‘rise’ was less impressive than the ‘sets’ that we had on Lanta but it does hold out the promise of a hot, sunny day so it does have that in it’s favour. Last night met a german woman called Lotte who is here for a month. She is travelling alone, is certainly older than us and has ... 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