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From Ko Chang to Bangkok down the Chao Praya and along Khao San Road

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November 21st 2015
My dear wife set the alarm for 5.30 this morning and then beat me with bamboo sticks till I bled to make me get up and photograph the sunrise. She was shouting 'get up you lazy good for nothing scabberous dog' at me too. So I got up. And the sunrise was pretty dull. And I was tired. And I'd been called a dog. Not a good start to the day. And a tiny bit of that is true too. But breakfast was goo ... 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