Yummy snack

A day at the beach

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November 5th 2005
Sunday we took a quick trip to the beach. We drove southeast about 180 km from Bangkok. The trip was via expressway so traffic going there was fairly light. Rayong is also where the ferrys for Koh Samet start. This was a rather spur of the moment trip so we didn't have time to go to Koh Samet. We plan to go there pretty soon though. To get there requires a ferry ride of about 40 minutes or 1 ... 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