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A good time to post

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August 14th 2012
Bangkok. Well if ever there was a good time to sit and post, this is it. The daily rain has just arrived. It's such a funny sight to watch each day. The streets are lined with food vendors, people selling clothes and general tourist tat, happily praying on us tourists, then the rain comes and the hurry to pull the covers down on their stalls, coving the food as best they can. The locals wa ... 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