Playing spit with the setting sun

New Year

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January 8th 2013
I am now back in Muang Samsip with the wind sending a cooling breeze through our house. Yet the last week was one to remember as something of a first. The first time on a Thai beach. First time I’ve awoken on a Thai beach with no recollection of the New Year’s night that brought me there. And not the first or the last time I’ve taken the night in for a night out. Our journey took the best p ... 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