Did you know that Phuket is ranked in the Top Twenty most visited places in the World, welcoming over 10 million tourists per year! Most of those visitors base themselves at the beaches, never making it in to the town itself. That’s a pity – because the island’s capital is lovely and it’s old town […]
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Picture the royal barge making its way along the Chao Phraya River from Bangkok to the summer palace at Bang Pa-In. It’s 1880 and the boat is carrying Queen Sunanda – the 19 year old first wife of King Chulalongkorn – and their daughter, princess Kannabhorn, not yet 2 years old. The boat runs into […]
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Ah – How peaceful is this – and, stunning as Bangkok’s monuments are, I like the absence of gold and bright colour for a while! This is what’s left of the once great city of Ayutthaya. Founded in 1350, it would flourish between 14th – 18th centuries into a major urban centre of commerce and […]
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