Glimpsing the Golden Triangle
Mary Murphy
October 8, 2018
The city of Chiang Saen in Northern Thailand was once the capital of the Lanna Kingdom. It’s had a turbulent history, captured by the Burmese
The city of Chiang Saen in Northern Thailand was once the capital of the Lanna Kingdom. It’s had a turbulent history, captured by the Burmese
When I’m anxious, I don’t sleep. I get antsy. And I’m early. We were at the train station in Ayutthaya about an hour before the
I woke up on Sunday with a horrible feeling that everything that could go wrong, would go wrong. So much for Murphy being an optimist.
That I laughed out loud when we passed through a place called Bangkhen is somewhat indicative of my state of mind leaving Bangkok. Am addled.
Am officially excited. Just hours to go before we take off for a month in Thailand. I’ve never been to that part of the world.
The most famous story I know that has its origins in India is that of the blind men and the elephant. It’s a parable that
Way back in the early 1980s, when faced with the choice of moving to Dublin or making the 20-mile commute up and back each day,
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The cows I’d gotten used to. The dogs, too. But turning a corner and coming face to face with a camel while monkeys cavorted like
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