Traders on the beach at Chaweng

Koh Samui

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June 22nd 2010
Well the travel blog has taken a long time as we have had trouble with our laptop. during the last lot of travel it got knocked over and we now have a laptop with a broken screen. It also means that I am unable to access all the missive that I wrote about Koh Samui but did not up load onto the blog. so here goes for an edited version! June 11-13. We had a great flight over from Krabi and arriv ... 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