The Final Stretch
June 14th 2006 Part XVII
…contd. 14th / 15th June - Wednesday/Thursday
Our Thai Airways flight left for Bangkok at 21:30 so we were in plenty of time and had drinks and nibbles in the Business Class Lounge. One of the first surprises about Bangkok is that the city is not called Bangkok in the Thai language. It is called Krung Thep ('the City of the Angels') and the name Bangkok refers strictly to only
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