Bridge on the River Kwai

Back on the river Kwai

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April 13th 2011
I'm on my way to Vietnam, where I'll be living and teaching for the next year. After six months of intensive saving and a near-hermitic existence, I figured I deserved a few weeks holiday and have found myself back in my old stomping ground of Kanchanaburi. Our original plan (I'm joined by a fellow future-teacher, Russell) was to head down to Koh Tao to do some diving, but we were discouraged b ... 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