Posts Tagged “thailand”

Back in Siam

We dropped into Bangkok with severe jet lag and sent our broken gadgets on their own holiday to the technology Shangri La of Singapore. Thailand has its lips firmly wrapped around the fire hose of American capital and tourism. The opportunity and inequality of the unchecked market are readily apparent. Bangkok is a huge sprawling [...]

Elephants in the City

Mandy and I are in Chang Mai. We flew here today from Bangkok. Life here more sedate than frenetic Bangkok with its Asian ultra- modern skyscrapers sprouting out of open air fruit and meat markets. Gleaming chromium steel and gold everything with people sleeping on the steps. Much of it is more modern than American [...]