My new friend

Flooding, Naked Euros, and Prostitutes

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February 14th 2009
I have spent the last few days in Phuket. I flew in on Thursday evening and arrived at my guesthouse, Fantasy Hill, at 9 at night. The place was located between two beaches called Kata and Karon. This area was a lot more mellow than the more popular party beach called Patong which was further north. So, Fantasy Hill was the cheapest place I could find in the area. It was not really any fantasy I h ... 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