“Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!”
December 22nd 2006 With a couple of days to kill and getting bored of Bangkok, we headed out of the big city and to Kanchanaburi; the site of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ and its infamous death railway.
As well as visiting the museum (and its ghoulish life-size statues of those that were involved in WW2), we walked upon the bridge itself. Whilst we did, a train appeared. Fortunately there was room for all of u
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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 
