Goodbye !

A (prodigious) firestarter

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January 14th 2013
Geo: 16.3833, 103.933To the farm after breakfast and start to burn the huge clump of bamboo that we want to lose. I have progressed from a small back garden bonfire to a small burn off at the farm to a raging inferno this morning - what comes next ?Most of the undergrowth disappears with the fire but the bamboo itself remains undefeated and will have to be burnt again and again and then finall ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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