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The 60th anniversary celebrations

Posted by BodgenRach | 26th June 2006

Hello there from Changmai! We got here in 1 piece although, as is always the way with us we made it hard work, but to be fair it wasnt totally our fault this time what can you do when the airline delays your flight for an hour.

Before we talk about that though both of us realised that we did not mention anything about the Kings 60th anniversary of his sucession to the throne, witch is pretty bad because it is not like you could miss it. It was everywhere. Fortunately we were in Bangkok for it which was very lucky because if we had gotten our own way we would have been in Phuket and we would have missed the whole thing.

The actual finale of the 5 day event was the night before we left and it was incredible, everywhere was a sea of yellow (the colour associated with his regime) and I do mean everywhere. People ranging from little 5 yer old kids to teenagers all the way up to their grandparents were wearing these bright yellow t-shirts and waving the Thai national flag. It seemed as

Continued | Disco' in the Far East

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