History unveils itself as you travel. If you get to know tourist sites, local people (even as a tourist) then you can find out and gain real insights into the places you travel to - or the people in the places! In each country I visited I found this. Sometimes natural history, sometimes political. Nowhere …
Tag: PoW
Bridge over the River Kwai
Sitting on the train after Kwai crossing and WangPho viaduct on Friday 14th August 2015 on my way to Bangkok, then Chiang Mai tomorrow. This latest trip offered history with beautiful views...if scary with open doors on the train to a drop along the Wang Po viaduct built by PoW in WWII! It now …
Unfolding secret histories!
Today, 6th July 2016, almost a year on from starting my years travel, I met up with a friend Ray and his wife Khammah, who I stayed with in Ubon Ratchathani last September. When I visited them in Khamma's village where they live and have a house (Ray spends some time here in the UK …
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