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All things Thai culture… Last month I posted about Khun Krajog’s Brush Up You Thai series on The Nation Weblog (no longer online). Well, Khun … Read more
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All things Thai culture… Last month I posted about Khun Krajog’s Brush Up You Thai series on The Nation Weblog (no longer online). Well, Khun … Read more
The I Love Thailand website launches… Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva recently launched a website to unite the Thai people: ilovethailand.org (no longer online – the … Read more
Baby bird watching and the Streak-eared Bulbul… Following on from my previous post: Baby Bird Watching in Bangkok… I don’t know my birds – Thai … Read more
Look, there’s a temple, and another, and oh, there’s more… First thing on Thursday I left a rainy Bangkok to head south for a rainy … Read more
The top 100 Thailand blogs: accept no imitation… UPDATE: Matt’s Top 100 Thailand blogs list is no longer available. Matt Crook, formerly of Thailand and … Read more
Bangkok Taxi Drivers… Just so’s you don’t have to wade to the bottom of this post to see… I have a fondness for (most) Bangkok … Read more
What is a pirate to do in Bangkok?… A month or so ago, while drifting around JJ Market with my Canadian girlfriend and a Canon … Read more
Red Shirt riots aside, just what IS สงกรานต์ (Songkran)… One of the benefits of writing posts for WLT is being inspired to look up the … Read more
Talk about bad, bad, timing… Last month, with Songkran in mind, I slogged away on a Thai language phrase book series for tourists as well … Read more
The Red Shirts have been and gone… This morning, first thing, I headed to Victory Monument via the Skytrain. The train was mostly empty, but … Read more
The Red Shirts are coming… When I woke up yesterday morning, there were no plans to go running around Bangkok looking for protesters. But when … Read more
Do language phrase books ever talk our talk?… To set the record straight, phrase books and I have never talked the same language. Sure, they … Read more