For the McCarthy

rest day!

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February 3rd 2007
It's lunch time in Chiang Rai and today we have a rest day for all of us. Miriam and I went for a nice morning walk around our Chat guest house (www.chattour.com). You see the city slowly waking up and many people getting their carts ready for the food markets. The fresh fish gets cleaned and the cooking starts. The Thai people eat the same hot food in morning lunch and dinner. You are getting use ... 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