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 …
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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 …
Local Thai village life
Yesterday we went for a walk around the village, met cousin Saw on her smallholding, and watched hers and a neighbours 'long seed cow' (how it sounds rather than how its written!) 'rice washing machine' which separates the rice from the kernels and stalks, running them into sacks to store and/or sell, with the brown …
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