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Just 18 months ago, I wrote about how this ordinary aircraft would change my life. And it did. This Boeing 747, or one very like it, took me on my first trip outside Australia, to Thailand. I’m about to be changed again. Dramatically. I can’t tell you about my SEKRIT project just yet, except that …
’Pong’s movie Bangkok Express slices through the city at the height of the motorway. Yes, you can see urban decay, but it’s abstract, in the distance. The train slices the city differently: just above human eye level. The photos I took from the train in Bangkok reminded me that a sign at Ashfield Station in …
When the Thai economy was booming in the early 1990s, construction started on a 60km high-speed elevated train and motorway link from central Bangkok to the international airport at Don Mueang. However when the currency collapsed in 1997-98, work was abandoned. These stained concrete fragments (pictured) are all that remains of the Bangkok Elevated Road …
For just one day in Thailand, we got out of the 10-million-person wonder that is Bangkok and headed East to Rayong. We had lunch with ’Pong’s parents. Over a mountain of ultra-fresh seafood and a bottle of rum, we watched this view. Need I say more? This post is part of my series “Unreliable Bangkok”. …
In the Old City of Bangkok, on the afternoon of Wednesday 28 November 2007, this barber (pictured) gave me the best haircut I’ve ever had. It wasn’t because I looked particularly handsome afterwards, though it was an improvement. It was the meticulous care and attention shown. ’Pong took the photo with a proper camera, not …
One of the most important differences between Bangkok and Sydney is that Bangkok isn’t full of arseholes. I’ve already mentioned that Skytrain security staff are helpful. Unlike CityRail’s. But it goes way beyond that… In virtually every bar in Bangkok, you don’t pay for your drinks up front. You sit, you order your drinks, they …