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About Mike

A recently retired "Baby Boomer" , looking forward to having more time for my photography and travel.

Learning the lingo

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Mike

Over the many years that I have been visiting Thailand I have met many farang who have been living here for some time, but could not speak more than a few phrases of the most basic of Thai, often picked … Continue reading →

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Eating and walking through the “Village of Love”

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Mike

One of the oldest and most cosmopolitan districts of this cosmopolitan city is Bang Rak, the Village of Love. Although there is another theory that it was originally named after the rak tree (which sounds the same but is spelled … Continue reading →

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How low can a “journalist” go ?

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Mike

Andrew McGregor Marshall is a some-time journalist, some-time pen for hire often used as an expert on Thai politics by BBC, CNN, Reuters, even though his main job is writing PR for Thaksin Shinawatra’s lobbyist Robert Amsterdam so he is … Continue reading →

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Shutdown Bangkok, Restart Thailand

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Mike

The ongoing anti-government protests that I have written about before were stepped up a couple of weeks ago when the “Peoples Democratic Reform Committee” moved out of their previous base at Democracy Monument and spread across the city, taking over … Continue reading →

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Kids, don’t try this at home !

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Mike

While walking past one of the “People’s Democratic Reform Committee” anti-government protest sites here in Bangkok the other day some pickup trucks arrived, full of lion heads, drums and dancers. They were obviously going to provide the entertainment in between … Continue reading →

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A walk through Chinatown, Bangkok

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Mike

The western New Year is barely over, and there is another less than three weeks away … Chinese New Year. Chinatown here in Bangkok is already being dressed up, the alleys and footpaths are even more choked than usual with … Continue reading →

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