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Exploring the Old City

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October 21st 2011
On Monday, we were up bright and early to go on a Thai cooking course. The head chef pulled up in front of our guesthouse at 9am in a pick-up truck converted into a sort of minivan, and we headed off to get our shopping from the local food ,market. The market really was an experience. It was pretty huge, with a selection of fresh meat and vegetables that put our local supermarkets at home to sh ... 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