Arrived in Pattaya and am looking forward to the beach, and hopefully snorkelling and scuba diving! December 16th 2013 Today I travelled to Pattaya by bus from Bangkok and settled into a hostel there. It was a pleasant journey on a government air-conditioned bus and I slept nearly the whole way. The humidity has increased and I am having to take things a lot slower now. I changed some more money at the bank in Bangkok and stopped by Ekkamai and ate a Japanese dish of pork and bean sprouts in soy sauce (there is a ... read more
Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Pattaya 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
I moved to Italy three years ago. I worked for two years in the Tuscany region and this year I've travelled through Rome (6 weeks) Pisa (3 months), Genova (2 months), Bologna (2 weeks), Venice (1 week), Naples (5 days.) Most of this trip was done under the second lockdown when Italy was empty of tourists.
I moved to Palermo, Sicily's capital at the end of May 2021 and lived there for 2 months, I left Palermo and spent 7 days in each of the following cities in this order - Agrigento, Trapani, Taormina, Ragusa, Siracusa and stayed in Catania for September. In October I moved to Naples for a t... full info