- 20 January 2012
Travelling Religiously
Whether you are a true believer, a skeptic or even agnostic, no-one can deny that the world’s great religions have left us with three important legacies (apart from questionable reasons for starting wars): some great music, some fabulous art and some magnificent buildings.
- 19 January 2012
The Wild Wild East
Just a couple of hours drive from Bangkok, you will actually see cowboys. We are not quite sure what it is about I-San – perhaps a difficult agricultural life, some wild and wonderful scenery – but it is absolutely the oriental version of the American West, complete with these cowboys (who actually look more like Indians) and country music.
I-San simply means ‘north east’ and it is the Khorat Plateau region of Thailand, bordered by the Mekong River (Laos is on the other bank) and by Cambodia to the south east. The people even speak dialects of Lao and Cambodian although everything is written in Thai script.
- 19 January 2012
Gourmet Denmark
You don’t usually think of Denmark as a gourmet destination but the Danes pride themselves on fabulous fresh ingredients, hearty flavours and a cooking style that has developed in direct relation to climate and location. It is just not, well, French. But it is delicious nevertheless – just ask any Dane.
