EIGHT THAI BEACHES: SONGKLA, HUA HIN, KOH SAMUI, KHAO LAK, THE SIMILANS, SURIN ISLANDS, KRABI AND PHUKET. PLUS BANGKOK AND THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI...
February 17th 2009 Welcome all, to my last blog of what has turned out to be 18 months of travelling overland (not a single flight!) to and around mainland south east asia, an eventful time indeed... for next thursday night (26th february), ekk and i will board a Etihad airlines flight bound for london (via abu dhabi). it is also the first flight i've taken since april 2007, so slightly apprehensive...
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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 
