Our last tuk-tuk ride

One bloody long day in Bangkok

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July 2nd 2006
The day started when we were woken by our alarm at 4.30am the 2nd of July after only 3 hours sleep, we had watched the England v Portugal football match the night before and in our eagerness to spend as much time on the beach as we could, when we were booking our flights back to Bangkok we had booked the last possibly flght out of Samui. This just happened to be the first flight of the day and mea ... 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