ConverseMan

The World is Now Twice Our Oyster

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April 22nd 2016
While you are beginning your day in the States, we are winding down ours. Maybe by most standards we had a rather uneventful day. But, while we are ahead of you on the clock, time moves more slowly here. The people move more slowly. If there was a horn to honk at folks blocking up a sidewalk, us Bostonians would blow it. In our world we move too fast, speeding by sights and sounds and activity wit ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

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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