September 22nd, 2014 — 4:26am
I recently spent a rain-soaked weekend in the eastern Thai town of Chanthaburi. It’s a pleasant provincial town with more than its fair share of beautiful old buildings which were built by Vietnamese immigrants in the 1920s. Most visitors to Thailand pass through without stopping, en route to nearby Trat, the ferry point for
August 23rd, 2014 — 10:14am
August 23rd, 2014 — 7:31am
A soup seller with her earthenware pot wrapped in lotus leaves sitting in a side street waiting for customers.
August 22nd, 2014 — 4:50am
Lao food gets a bad press, and I think it’s undeserved. Granted, the competition from neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam is stiff but there’s certainly plenty of delicious and interesting food worth discovering in landlocked Laos. Unfortunately the restaurant scene hasn’t really developed and until relatively recently very few people went out to eat. Most of
August 21st, 2014 — 8:13am
The history of Australia and Thailand are inextricably linked by one of the darkest moments of World War II, the construction of the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. Just before dusk in the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi, hoards of day trippers pose for photographs at the Bridge on the River Kwai. Others wait patiently for night to
