Tag Archives: Thailand

A love triangle …The prince, the mermaid and the giant

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Mike

I’ve just spent a few days on Ko Samet island, the first thing you see as you arrive at the pier is this statue of Pisuea Samut, one of the characters in a famous Thai poem written a couple of … Continue reading →

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Oh for “smellavision”

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Mike

Oh for “smellavision”, or “scratch-n-sniff” internet …that’s what you need for a post about Talat Pak Klong, or the Pak Klong Market, otherwise known as the flower or orchid market. A long time ago this area was a floating market, … Continue reading →

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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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