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      <title>Keigo Sato, le petit garçon Thai qui cherchait son père Japonais</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Keigo Sato is now reunited with his Japanese father</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Khun Abhisit's latest Thailand promotion campaign, Thailand Shining Through</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>I now study at the Lycée Français International of Bangkok and I love it</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"&gt;I changed school one month ago and am now in the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.lfib.ac.th/website/accueil.php?hLg=en&amp;sLg=en" target="_blank" name="Lycée Français International de Bangkok" title="French School in Bangkok"&gt;Lycée Français International de Bangkok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;My parents discussed a lot and hesitated a lot before sending me to the French school and I explained the reasons of that choice in my French blog ( &lt;font color="#ffff00"&gt;&lt;a id="i77g" href="http://farangrakthai.com../../../../../Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7153/Pourquoi-jetudie-maintenant-au-Lycee-Francais-International-de-Bangkok.aspx" title="Pourquoi j'étudie maintenant au Lycée Français International de Bangkok" target="_blank"&gt;Pourquoi j'étudie maintenant au Lycée Français International de Bangkok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; ). I will summarize these reasons here.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;1. Cultural and linguistic reasons&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
Since we live in Thailand and my mother is Thai, my mother tongue and primary/dominant language is Thai. My second language is English since my parents speak together in English and I went to an English school for my first year in kindergarten. My third language is French since my father is French speaking and has been speaking in French to me since the day I was born. But well, I do not really speak to him that often comparatively to the people I speak to in Thai and in English, this is therefore my weakest language. And my father thinks that if I do not go to the French school, I will never really know French and French culture, the first reason for me to study at the Lycée Français.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;2. Level of education&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;There are many Thai schools and many English schools in Bangkok but what is the level of education in these schools? Except for the top English ones like Pattan School, NIST or ISB, this is extremely for my parents to assess the level. But it is pretty easy to assess the level at the French school since they follow the same curriculum as in France, with an stronger emphasis on languages in Bangkok. They have bilingual classes, French/English and classes with additional learning in Thai for the Thai kids like me. A second reason to go to the Lycée Français.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#999999"&gt;3. The costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;If you choose the English curriculum and want to make sure you receive the best level of education, you'll have to go to one of the top schools I just mentioned before. They're very good and... very expensive, far more expensive than the French school. A third reason for me to go to the Lycée Français de Bangkok.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;These are the 3 main reasons why, since the 2nd of September 2009, I am going every morning to the French School in Ladprao. It is about 30 minutes by car from where I live and my father drives me there every day. I get up at 6 a.m. and leaves home at 7.10. School ends a 14.10.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Here is the location of the school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="457" height="480" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1107.gif" alt="Access map to  Lycée Français International de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;And I love it. We do a lot of different things and my teacher is very nice. And best of all, he can play guitar, which he does regularly in the classroom. I want to buy a guitar and do the same.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;But this is another story, I'll comment about my day in school later on.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pourquoi j'étudie maintenant au Lycée Français International de Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;La dernière fois que j'ai parlé d'école sur ce blog, c'était pour le festival de Loy Krathong il y a presque un an ( &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7036/Le-festival-Loy-Krathong-en-Novembre-en-Thailande.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Loy Krathong&lt;/a&gt; ). A ce moment là, je suivais des cours dans une école maternelle Thai où la majorité des élèves étaient Japonais.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mon papa et ma maman ont décidé de me changer d'école le mois passé et de me mettre au &lt;a href="http://www.lfib.ac.th/website/accueil.php" target="_blank"&gt;Lycée Français International de Bangkok&lt;/a&gt; pour la rentrée des classes dans ce lycée, le 2 Septembre.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cette décision a été prise après avoir passé en revue les alternatives, à savoir les écoles Thai et les écoles anglophones. Et pour les raisons suivantes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;1. Raisons culturelles et linguistiques&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nous vivons en Thaïlande, dans un environnement où tout se fait, se lit, s'écrit ou se discute en thailandais, et si pas en thailandais, en anglais. Mais rien ou très peu en français. Le seul accès que j'ai à la culture et à la langue française est par l'intemédiaire de mon papa. Mais il travaille et donc je pratique très peu le français comparativement au thailandais et à l'anglais. Et donc, si je vais dans une école Thai ou Anglaise, je renforce mes points forts mais pas mon point faible, le Français. Une des raisons pour laquelle il est préférable que je suive les cours à l'école Française.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;2. Le niveau d'éducation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je suis certain qu'il y a d'excellentes écoles Thai et anglophones mais comment choisir? Le niveau varie énormément d'une école à l'autre et le choix semble être un casse-tête, non seulement pour les étrangers, mais aussi pour les familles Thai. Le niveau du Lycée Français est connu, ils suivent le même curriculum qu'en France, il est même amélioré, devrais je dire, vu que l'enseignement à Bangkok met l'accent sur les langues, l'anglais et le Thai y ayant une place prépondérante. Une autre raison pour choisir le Lycée Français de Bangkok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;3. Le coût&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pour obtenir un niveau d'éducation similaire à celui que vous aurez au Lycée Français, vous devrez probablement aller dans les meilleures écoles du système anglophone, à savoir Pattana School, NIST ou ISB pour ne citer que les trois plus connues. Elles sont effectivement d'un excellent niveau mais elles sont aussi extrêmement chères, en tout cas, nettement plus chères que le Lycée Français. C'est la troisième raison&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Il y en a d'autres mais ce sont les trois principales qui ont fait que depuis trois semaines, je me lève à 6 heures du matin pour partir vers sept heures au Lycée avec mon papa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nous arrivons aux environs de  7h 40 et mon papa me conduit en classe avant de continuer son chemin vers son bureau. Les cours commencent à huit heures et se terminent à 14 h 10 tous les jours. C'est généralement ma maman qui vient me rechercher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et j'aime beaucoup, on y fait de nombreuses activités et mon instituteur est très sympa mais je reviendrai plus en détails sur ma journée à l'école dans une prochaine entrée sur ce blog.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The few posts made in this blog on the cost of life in Bangkok considered that you do all your shopping in a big department store. In my case, this is usually in Carrefour on Rama 4 or in Lotus, just in front of Carrefour. I find it convenient, like most people I guess, since you'll find everything under one roof.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But talking about finding everything you need under one "roof", if what you require is fresh vegetables, fruits, fishes, seafood, i.e. food, nothing beats the Klong Toey wet market, just a stone throw away from Carrefour, on Rama 4.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Klong Toey market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1072r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a huge wet market and you'll find everything you need for preparing your lunch, and also quite a few things you'll probably prefer to not eat...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prices are very often displayed and speaking Thai is not absolutely necessary for you to be able to shop there, just learn how to count up to one hundred since most items will cost you less than that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We'll start with the vegetables, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, garlic, carrots, cabbage, brocoli, local vegetables...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vegetables at the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1077r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Vegetables at the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1087r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Brocoli At Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1085r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is Thailand, so you'll find many stands selling a wide variety of chili pepper&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Chili pepper on the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1078r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Chili pepper on the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1079r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;The fruits, bananas, mangoes, lime at baht 1 each.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Lime on the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1086r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fruits on the Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1075r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bananas on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1074r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;The meat, alive and dead&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ducks on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1090r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Chickens on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1092r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Meat on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1095r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And the seafood and fishes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Seafood on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1097r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Squid on Klong Toey wet market" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1098r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Live fishes on Klong Toey wet market in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1100r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And in case you do not believe that the food is fresh on this market, here is a short clip taken there a few weeks back, with the fishes pictured above and the next stand where big frogs were being slaughtered&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;You'll find more photos in the &lt;font color="#ffff00"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/photos.aspx" target="_blank" name="Photos about Thailand"&gt;Photo gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And if you like markets, here are three of them we recommend, in Mukdahan. &lt;font color="#ffff00"&gt;Click on the picture to go to the corresponding page&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Indochina market&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=101&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/153r.jpg" alt="Indochina market in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Wet market&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=152&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/792r.JPG" alt="Wet market in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Night market&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=159&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/941r.jpg" alt="Night market in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Les marchés en Thailande et le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Il y a des marchés dans toutes les villes de Thailande et ce n'est pas la première fois que j'en parle, mais c'était pour ceux de Mukdahan en Isaan  ( &lt;a name="Marché d'Indochine à Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=101&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché d'indochine&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a name="Marché aux légumes de Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=152&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché aux légumes&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a name="Marché de nuit à Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=159&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché de nuit&lt;/a&gt; ). Mais si vous voulez vous approvisionner en légumes et fruits de mer bon marché, l'un des plus grands est certainement le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok. Il est situé sur Rama 4, pas très loin du Carrefour oùles photos des entrées précédentes dans ce blog ont été prises. Et il est très grand, vous y trouverez de tout, mais parler Thailandais aide (au moins les nombres), ne vous attendez pas à rencontrer des personnes parlant Anglais, et encore moins Français.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Voici quelques photos prises sur ce marché (bien plus dand la gallerie photos) qui vous en donneront un aperçu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Une vue du dessus qui vous permettra de comprendre, qu'en dessous, il fait assez chaud.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Une vue du dessus du marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1072r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Les fruits, en commençant par les bananes &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bananes sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1074r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Noix de coco, durians et "starfruit"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fruits sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1075r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Les citrons verts à 1 baht&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Citrons verts sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1086r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Du chili, beaucoup de chili, nous sommes en Thailande&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Du chili sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1081r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Du chili sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1083r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Les oiseaux, vivants&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1090.JPG" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1090r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et moins vivants&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Poulets sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1092r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et les produits de la mer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Des poissons vivants sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1100r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et ces poissons vivent encore ainsi que les grosses grenouilles sur le stand d'à côté. Grosses grenouilles destinées à être mangées dans leur entiereté, pas seulement les pattes.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt; Les calamars&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Calamars sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1098r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;La viande, probablement pas une bonne idée de l'acheter sur le marché si vous aimez la manger saignante...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Viande sur le marché de Klong Toey à Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1096r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et le riz&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;C'est juste un aperçu, plus de photos ici &lt;a name="Photos about Thailand - Des photos sur la Thailande" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Erawan waterfalls in Kanchanaburi province</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Erawan waterfalls are some of the best in Thailand. They are located 60 km away from Kanchanaburi and about 5 km away from the Srinakarin dam.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I loved it actually, even if I found it very hard. It took us about one and a half hour to reach the last level and I was so so tired that my dad had to carry me all the way down &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/embaressed_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But you have clear waters there, and you can swin in the small ponds at the bottom of the waterfalls. With the fishes. It is a bit cold but climbing up makes you so hot that it is a welcome refief to be able to cool yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The entrance&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Entrance of the Erawan waterfalls park" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1058.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And what we will have to go through&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="428" height="640" alt="Levels of the Erawan Waterfalls in Kanchanaburi province" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1062.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And here we go&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1056r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The different levels, in no particular order&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1063r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1059r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="424" alt="Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1060r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I was so hot that I coud not resist&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="428" alt="Swimming in the water coming from the Erawan waterfalls in Kanchanaburi province" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1066.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I was not the only one &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Swimming in the water coming from the Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1068r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" alt="Swimming in the water coming from the Erawan waterfalls" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1069r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;More pictures in the &lt;font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffff00" size="2"&gt;&lt;a title="Thailand photo gallery" name="Thailand photo gallery" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photo galleries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Kanchanaburi war cemetery</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was in Kanchanaburi, I visited a cemetery, a war cemetery. My dad told me it is where some people who were taken prisoners by the Japanese, during the second world war, are buried. But when I looked at the tombs, people buried there were very young. Most were less than 30 years old. Why did they die so young?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1048r.JPG" alt="Kanchanaburi war cemetery" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1045r.JPG" alt="Kanchanaburi war cemetery" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The entrance&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1052.JPG" alt="Entrance of the war cemetery in Kanchanaburi" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1040r.JPG" alt="Kanchanaburi war cemetery" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And I took quite a few pictures&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1043r.JPG" alt="War cemetery in Kanchanaburi" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1041r.JPG" alt="War cemetery in Kanchanaburi" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1049r.JPG" alt="War cemetery in Kanchanaburi" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Kanchanaburi war cemetery" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1050r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Rain, flooding and the Srinakarin dam in Kanchanaburi</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Kwai river next to the Srinakarin dam in Kantchanaburi province" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1030r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7148/Rain-flooding-and-the-Srinakarin-dam-in-Kanchanaburi.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <title>La traversée du pont sur la river Kwai à Kanchanaburi</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis allé le week-end dernier à Kanchanaburi, environ 135 km à l'ouest de Bangkok, environ une heure et demi de route. Un endroit connu pour son pont, le pont sur le rivière Kwai.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pont sur la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1010r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Pont sur la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1006r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et vous pouvez le traverser une étroite passerelle située au milieu des rails&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="La traversée du pont sur la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1005r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Traversée du pont sur la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1007r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Le jour, ce n'est pas trop difficile, mais la nuit, le pont n'est pas éclairé&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Traversée du pont sur la rivère Kwai de nuit" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1013r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et cela devient donc plus difficile. Et certainement plus effrayant.  Je m'accrochais donc à ma maman.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Traversée du pont sur la rivière Kwai à kanchanaburi de nuit" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1016r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Mais au moins, la nuit, on ne recontre pas de train, ils ne circulent pas la nuit. Ce n'est pas le cas pendant la journée, un train passe plusieurs fois par jour, que vous soyez, ou non, sur le pont. De petites plates-formes de dégagement sont prévues pour les piétons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Un train sur le pont de la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1018r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et il passe très près de vous&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Train sur le pont de la rivière Kwai à Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1022r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Walking on the bridge over the river Kwai</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I went to Kanchanaburi last weekend. It is about 135 km west of bangkok, a one and a half drive by car and it is a place known for its bridge, the bridge over the river Kwai.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Bridge over the river Kwai in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1002r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Brtidge over the river Kwai n Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1010r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;I was staying at the Felix hotel, next to the bridge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="River Kwai bridge in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1003r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And if the bridge is a bridge for trains, you can I walk on it, on a footpath in between the rails.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" alt="A walk on the bridge over the river Kwai n Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1008r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;A very narrow footpath&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="425" height="640" alt="Walking on the bridge over the river Kwai in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1007r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And if it is Ok during the day, when it is dark, it is getting a bit tricky, you just can't see anything&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Bridge over the river Kwai at night" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1013r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And well, if you want to cross during the night, up to you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Warning panel in front of the bridge over the river Kwai in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1014r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;But I managed, with the help of my mum.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="427" height="640" alt="Walking at night on bridge over the river Kwai n Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1015r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Walking at night on bridge over the river Kwai n Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1016r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;After 7 p.m, no train is coming, fortunately. But it is not the case during the day. So you have a few small platforms on which you can take refuge when the train is coming&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Train crossing the river Kwai bridge in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1018r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" alt="Train crossing the river Kwai bridge in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1020r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;But the train is still getting pretty close to you&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Close-up of a train crossing the river Kwai bridge in Kanchanaburi" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1022r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Feeding the animals in Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Nong Nooch Botanical Gardens are located 17km South of Pattaya, on the way to Rayong. This is a very big park with lot of gardens and lot of fun activities for kids.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I went there last weekend with my parents and I just loved it. Not so much the gardens, which are some of the nicest in Thailand, according to my dad, but because there are plenty of animals I can give food to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Starting with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="feeding the animals in Nong Nooch gardens" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/950r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And fighting for it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Feeding the animals in Nong Nooch gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/951r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Less fighting&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="449" alt="Feeding the animals in Nong Nooch gardens" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/952r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But there are plenty of animals to feed there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The birds also&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="481" alt="Feeding the birds in Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/971r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And of course, the elephants, quite a lot of them there&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="641" alt="Elephants in Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/975r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And the fishes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="641" alt="Feeding fishes in Nong Noogch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/973r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="480" alt="Feeding fishes in Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/974r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And plenty of others to feed, but not sure I want to know what this one eat...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="425" alt="Tiger in Nong Nooch gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/954r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;But this park is about gardens, not animals, and they have very beautifully maintained gardens. I like them also but too much walking, I got tired after the animals feeding. But I managed...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="723" alt="Visit of Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/964r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="723" alt="Visit of Nong Nooch botanical gardens in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/968r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;In any case, if you plan to go there, you will need at least half a day to see the park, if not more. We stayed there for about 3 1/2 hours and did not get the time to see everything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And more pictures of the gardens are in the &lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#ffff00" size="3"&gt;&lt;a title="Thailand photo gallery" name="Thailand photo gallery" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photo Galleries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And more info and photos about Pattaya here &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=162&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Photos and info about Pattaya" title="Photos and info about Pattaya"&gt;Pattaya - Photos and info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>La grippe A - H1N1 en Thailande, l'ancien Ministre de la Santé atteint</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nous en sommes maintenant à environ 10000 personnes infectées et un peu moins de 100 morts. Mais le Ministère de la Santé pense qu'il y a plus d'un demi-million  de cas en Thailande.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et parlant du Ministère de la Santé, un des derniers cas recensés est celui de l'ancienne Ministre de la Santé, celle du gouvernement Thaksin. Madame l'ancienne Ministre, Sudarat Keyuraphan, a été testée positive pour le virus H1N1 et est maintenant soignée à l'hôpital Bumrungrad à Bangkok. Au Tamiflu. Elle accuse le gouvernement actuel de ne pas faire suffisamment pour combattre la contagion galopante en Thailande, mais étant dans l'opposition, elle le faisait déjà avant dêtre atteinte du virus de la grippe A, je supposes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ce qui me fait me demander la raison pour laquelle le virus se propage aussi vite en Thailande.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;En Europe et en Amérique du Sud, on nous demande de ne plus s'embrasser quand on rencontre des amis, de ne plus se donner la main, et ce afin de ne pas rendre la vie trop facile aux virus pour sauter de personne en personne.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais en Thailande, les gens ne s'embrassent pas et ne se donnent pas la main, ils "wai", donc ce facteur de contagion est beaucoup moindre. Alors pourquoi le nombre de personnes infectées est il bien plus élevé qu'en France? Celà doit venir d'ailleurs et je suis assez persuadé que ailleurs, ce sont les écoles Thais. Contrairement à l'Europe, elles ne sont pas fermées en Thailande, les vacances sont terminées depuis longtemps. Et ce sont certainement des endroits où la contagion est, et a été particulièrement rapide Et les enfants transmettant le virus aux adultes qu'ils rencontrent, Bangkok est devenue rapidemment la ville la plus touchée par la grippe A.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ce qui me fait craindre une explosion des cas de grippes en Europe dans environ un mois, à la rentrée des classes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Thai Health Minister got the swine flu</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I mean one of the last "elected" Thai Health Minister, from 2002 to 2005, not the present one , not yet anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;Sudarat Keyuraphan is treated at the Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok with Tamiflu after tests confirmed she has the H1N1 virus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;She, of course, thinks that the present government does not do enough for containing the spread of the virus, which anyway she was probably also saying before being infected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;And it makes me wonder how so many Thai people get infected in the first place, I mean adult Thai people. We are told in Europe to not kiss the friends we meet, not even shake hands with them in order to limit the spread of the virus, but Thai people do not kiss the friends they meet, they do not shake hands, they wai at each other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;The spread of the virus should therefore be slower in Thailand than in "kissing countries" like France but it is not the case, on the contrary. Why is it so?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;One of the reasons, I think, is that school holidays in Thailand, contrary to most of Europe, ended 2 months ago. It gave plenty of time for the virus to propagate in that fertile environment, and for the children to transmit the virus to adults. &lt;/span&gt;Giving Thailand a head start in the infection rate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="fullstory" class="fullstory"&gt;But we should catch up soon in Europe, schools will re-open next month and weather will get colder, perfect conditions for the H1N1 virus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>More than half a million people infected by the H1N1 virus in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to be zen about it up to now. People are paranoid about this new flu, I'm not, I know better, this is a mild flu that kills very few people. I'm from Europe, I'm used to it, nothing special, silly Thai people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
But well, now, if officially there about 9000 cases of people infected by the flu and 65 dead, half-officially, according to the Thai Health Authorities, more than 500,000 could have contracted the H1N1 virus in Thailand. Not that it surprises me that much, 90% of the people infected probably do not go to hospital, nor are they tested for the H1N1 virus (so maybe the number of people infected is far more than 500,000...).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
But this flu is a mild one, as said before, so why am I paranoid about it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Because it kills people who have respiratory difficulties and my son is one of them, he has asthma.&lt;br /&gt;
Any infection of the respiratory tract lands him in hospital, he just can't breathe anymore.&lt;br /&gt;
So what will happen if he gets this virus?&lt;br /&gt;
I'm sure not in a hurry to find out and decided to not put him back to school up to the time a vaccine is available.&lt;br /&gt;
He is only 3, so he won't miss much by not attending school.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are risks I'm sure not ready to take, and this one is now top of the list.&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I am now paranoid.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Will Khun Abhisit and Khun Thaksin exchange tweets?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Thai Prime Minister, Khun Abhisit, has been on twitter for quite some time &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/PM_Abhisit " target="_blank" title="Abhisit on twitter"&gt;twitter.com/PM_Abhisit &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of today he has 1,933 followers and he follows 13 people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have news for him, an old "friend" of him is now on twitter also, i.e. Khun Thaksin &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/thaksinlive" target="_blank" title="Thaksin on twitter"&gt;twitter.com/thaksinlive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He still does not follow anybody but has 1,277 followers. I suggest Khun Abhisit as the first one to add to his list of people to follow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And may I suggest to Khun Abhist to do the same? Adding Khun Thaksin to his list of people to follow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And they could start exchanging tweets. &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Visit of an Isaan village</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I told you in my previous entry in this blog that I went fishing in a small village next to Mukdahan. I also spent some time in that village since my mother wanted to go to the wat (temple) there, take some mangoes and pappayas and a few kg of rice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here I am on the main street of the village. Not sure you noticed on the pictures I posted before but the blue is Thailand color (and HM the Queen's color), hence many things are painted blue (boats, houses, roof tiles...), so I'm also wearing blue  &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Eurasian boy in an Isaan village" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/936r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The blue telephone booth and the house next to it&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Blue telephone booth in an Isaan village" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/934r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The typical wooden house&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Wooden house in an Isaan village" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/933r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The grocery store with the blue chairs&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Grocery store in an Isaan village" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/932r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The Wat next to the Mekong river where we went praying&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="War (Thai Buddhist temple) in a small Isaan village near Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/931r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And what are the pople living there doing, besides fishing in the Mekong river? They grow rice, making Thailand the biggest exporter of rice in the world&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Here they are, on they way&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Isaan farmers in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/926r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The rice fields&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Rice field in Isaan, Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/922r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Rice field in Isaan, Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/923r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img alt="Rice field in Isaan Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/924r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And we should not forget the well known Thai water buffalo. This one is pregnant, so a bit big.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Thai water buffalo" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/927r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And the Isaan ladies and girls selling mushrooms&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Isaan girls selling mushrooms in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/929r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Isaan girls selling mushrooms in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/930r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A la pêche sur le fleuve Mékong</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lors de ma récente visite chez ma gran-mère à Mukdahan, je suis aussi aller visiter un village au bord du Mékong, à environ 20 kms au sud de Mukdahan. La majorité des gens habitant dans ce village cultivent le riz mais quelques-uns pêchent. Et j'ai trouvé cela bien plus intéressant que le riz.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On doit descendre quelques marches pour arriver à la rivière&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pêcheurs sur le fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" src="../../../../../Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/913r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et en bas se trouvent les pêcheurs, l'un d'entre eux était là quand j'y suis allé, je me demande ce qu'il fait&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/919r.JPG" alt="Pêcheurs sur le fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Il répare son filet&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/914r.jpg" alt="Pêcheur réparant son filet sur le fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/916r.jpg" alt="Pêcheur réparant son filet sur le fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et il avait quelques poissons dans une petite cage près de lui et je lui ai demandé si je pouvais les voir. Ce qu'il a gentillement accepté et il est donc descendu de sa pirogue pour me les montrer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/917r.jpg" alt="Pêcheur sur le fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et il disait que les poissons étaient petits. De plus en plus petits. Qu'ils pêchait de bien plus grands poissons dans le passé. Mais bon, moi je les ai trouvés grands, presqu'aussi grands que moi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/918r.jpg" alt="Poissons du fleuve Mékong à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tour de Isaan 2009</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fishing in the Mekong river</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was in Mukdahan last weekend, I went to a small village about 30 km south of Mukdahan where my grand mother has some family. This village is next to the Mekong river and there is quite a few fishermen. They use small blue nets to catch the fishes and can sometimes catch pretty big ones, or should I say they could in the past, less and less these days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have to go down a few stairs to reach the Mekong river&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fishermen on the Mekong river in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/913r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And here I am, looking at one of  them&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Small boy next to the Mekong river in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/919r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And here he is repairing his net&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fisherman on the Mekong river in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/914r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img alt="Fisherman on the Mekong river in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/916r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And well, I asked him to see some the fishes he was keeping in the river next to me. And he kindly get out of his boat and showed them to me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fisherman on the Mekong river in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/917r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Here are the fishes, quite big actually, about half my size&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fishes of the Mekong river" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/918r.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ma rencontre avec un moine bouddhiste très spécial</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;En tout cas, ma maman dit qu'il est très spécial. Il vit depuis 30 ou 40 ans, personne ne sait vraiment, dans une petite maison en bois de 10 m2. Et il ne veut rien de ce que nous considérons indispensables, téléphone, TV, micro-onde, il a juste accepté un frigo. Si il reçoit quelque chose, il le donne. Et il ne veut pas de plus grande maison, enfin, je veux dire de maison. Et on vient le voir de loin parce que il a un don, du moins c'est ce qu'on dit, il voit le passé et le futur des gens. Et ma maman en est convaincue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je suis donc aller le voir, environ 30 minutes de route à partir de Mukdahan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le voici devant sa "maison"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/906r.JPG" alt="Vieux moine bouddhiste dans un village en Isaan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et priant avec moi et ma maman&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/907r.JPG" alt="Vieux moine bouddhiste en train de prier" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et le plus important, me bénissant pour que j'ai de la chance et sois en bonne santé&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/911r.JPG" alt="Vieux moine en Isaan bénissant un petit garçon eurasien" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/910r.JPG" alt="Vieux moine en Isaan bénissant un petit garçon eurasien" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The start of the Buddhist Lent and my visit to a very special old monk in an Isaan village</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Bhudhist Lent comes with the rainy season in Thailand. It is called "Khao Phansa", a time for meditation. I was in Mukdahan the day it started and went to a small village quite far away from Mukdahan, a very small village. Where an old monk, who came from Cambodia, has been living for 30 or 40 years in a 9 m2 wooden house. Without TV, phone, whatever our civilization has to offer. He does not want it, or money. And my mum loves him , she says he sees things nobody sees, your past and your future. So I went to see him. Here he is in front of his house.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/906r.JPG" alt="Old monk in a small Isaan village" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Praying with me and my mum&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/907r.JPG" alt="Old monk praying in a small Isaan village next to Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And giving me luck and health&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/909r.JPG" alt="Old monk giving luck to a small eurasian boy in Isaan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/910r.JPG" alt="Old monk in Isaan giving luck to a samm eurasian boy" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;img alt="Old monk giving luck to a small eurasian boy in Isaan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/911r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>A weekend in Pattaya</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I  love going to the beach and this is why I like going to Pattaya. I get into the car, I sleep a little bit and I am in Pattaya. Perfect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My father does not like that much but he does not mind driving us there from time to time... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, we went there this week end and it was as usual, fun.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The beach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Thai Eurasian on a beach in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/897r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The games&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Beer bar on walking street" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/880r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And walking street&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Walking street in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/878r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And what did my father do?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;He read the newspapers all day...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" alt="Michael Jackson's death" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/902r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt; And here is a page about Pattaya &lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=162&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Photos and info about Pattaya" title="Photos and info about Pattaya"&gt;Pattaya - Photos and info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And many more pictures in the&lt;font face="Arial" size="3"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#ffff00"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Thailand best photos"&gt;Photo Galleries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Un week-end à Pattaya</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nous avons passé le week-end à Pattaya. J'aimes bien d'y aller parce que ce n'est pas loin de Bangkok, environ 140 km.  Pour moi, cela veut dire une dizaine de minutes, le temps de m'endormir et le temps de me réveiller...&lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La journée, nous la passons sur la plage&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Pattaya beach" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/896r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ETsous les nombreux parasols&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="720" alt="Pattaya beach" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/891r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et le soir, on joue&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Beer garden in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/880r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="Beer garden in Pattaya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/881r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Avant d'aller sur la rue piétonnière (walking street). Où j'ai beaucoup aimé les glaces et les personnes qui les vendaient.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/878r.JPG" alt="Eurasian on walking street in Pattaya" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="480" height="721" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/879.JPG" alt="Young Eurasian boy on walking street in Pattaya" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Et plus d'infos et de photos sur Pattaya ici &lt;a title="Des photos et des infos sur Pattaya" name="Des photos et des infos sur Pattaya" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=162&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Pattaya - Des photos et des infos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Et beaucoup d'autres photos dans la  &lt;u&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="3"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank" name="Les plus belles photos de Thailande"&gt;&lt;font color="#ffff00"&gt;Gallerie de photos&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thailand International rally 2009</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="426" alt="2009 international rally in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/851r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7129/Thailand-International-rally-2009.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Plus de mille cas de grippe H1N1 en Thailande. Est-ce un virus de grippe pour pays chauds?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Cela est maintenant officiel, il y a plus de 1000 personnes, dont beaucoup d'enfants, affectés pas le virus de la grippe porçine en Thailande.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je suis dans ce pays depuis 12 ans et n'ai jamais entendu parler de cas de grippes. La grippe, c'est bien connu, aime le froid. La saison des grippes est l'hiver, entre Decembre et Mars dans l'hémisphère Nord. Et vous devez donc vous vacciner vers le mois de Novembre.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La raison pour laquelle les sociétés pharmaceutiques espèrent avoir développé un vaccin pour Septembre ou Octobre, pour la saison des grippes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oublient-ils que ce virus est né au Mexique, où il n'y a pas d'hiver?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Se pourrait-il que ce virus de grippe aime les températures élevées contrairement à ses cousins?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et sera donc bien plus dangereux, il n'y aura plus de saison pour la grippe...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is the H1N1 virus the first flu virus that likes summer and hot temperatures? More than 1000 cases in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;So, this is now official, there are more than 1000 cases of swine flu in Thailand. And probably many more since not too many people in Thailand will go to the the hospital when they get a fever. And get tested for the H1N1 virus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actually never heard about Thai people getting the flu before. For good reasons, I think, isn't the flu virus a virus that likes winter and low temperatures?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But this flu virus is different, it was born in an hot country and started affecting people when temperatures were on the high side.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So when we are told a vaccine for this swine flu virus has to be developped before the flu season, i.e. before winter time in the North hemisphere, do they forget this particular virus was born in Mexico, where there is no winter?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And it is the case, as it seems it is, we're going to be in troubles. No more flu season, the flu will be in summer and winter. And it could kill a lot of people in developping countries, people who were so far "protected" because they live in a country having a hot climate...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Price and quality of local beers in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote (complained?) about the increase taxation on alcoholic beverages in Thailand that resulted in a substantial increase in the price of beer. The post is here :  &lt;a name="Price of alcoholic beverages in Thailand" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7110/Price-of-beer-and-alcoholic-beverages-up-steeply-in-Thailand.aspx"&gt;Price of beer up steeply in Thailand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But what local beers will you actually find in Thailand? And what is their price and taste (disclaimer: the taste comments are about my taste only)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The order is by taste, the one I like first. And well, unfortunately in reverse order of price.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Singha beer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Singha beer in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/849.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Now baht 31 for a 33 cl can and baht 56 for a 66cl bottle. Alcohol content has been reduced from 6 to 5% not that long ago. It made it better, for me at least. I think the only Thai beer that can really be called a beer. By my European standards.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;2. Chang beer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Chang beer in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/846.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;The one with the 2 elephants on the bottle. The stongest one with 6.4% alcohol and one of the cheapest one with baht 21 for a 33 cl can. Not my taste but a favourite among many expats in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;3. Cheers beer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Cheers beer in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/845.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;This is a relatively new comer on the Thai market. Alcohol content is 5.6% and this is the second  cheapest at baht 24 for a can. Taste is too sweet and fruity for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;4 Leo beer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Leo beer in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/848.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;The worst one, by far, for me. And not the cheapest at baht 26 for a 33 cl can.  Alcohol content is 5.5% . I drank it only twice. There probably won't be a third time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And you have all the foreign beers brewed in Thailand, Asahi from Japan, Tiger from Singapore, Heineken from Holland. With my favourite being Asahi from Japan.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Le prix et qualité des bières en Thailande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;J'ai récemment écrit sur le fait que la taxe sur la bière (et toutes les autres boissons alcoolisées) avait récemment augmenté en Thailande. Le commentaire est ici: &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Thailandblogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7109/Le-prix-des-boissons-alcoolisees-a-fortement-augmente-en-Thailande.aspx" target="_blank" name="Prix des boissons alcoolisées en Thailande"&gt;Prix des boissons alcoolisées en Thailande&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mais que trouvez-vous comme bières locales en Thailande et que valent elles en termes de prix et de goût?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Par ordre de prix.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. La bière Chang&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/846.jpg" alt="Bière Chang en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Une des bières favorites d'un certain nombre d'expatriés en Thailande. La plus forte (6.4%) et la moins chère, entre 19 et 21 baht pour une canette de 33cl. Chang veut dire éléphant en Thailandais et vous avez donc 2 éléphants sur le sigle de la marque. je n'aime pas mais bon, c'est bon marché.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Cheers beer&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/845.jpg" alt="Bière Cheers en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Une nouvelle venue sur le marché. 24 baht pour une canette de 33 cl. Douce et fruitée avec 5.6% d'alcool. Je n'aime pas non plus. Trop "sucrée" à mon goût.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Bière Léo&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/848.jpg" alt="Bière Léo en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La troisième de la série des bières bon marché. 26 baht pour une canette de 33 cl et 5.5% d'alcool. La pire des trois pour moi. J'en ai bu seulement une fois.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Bière Singha &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/849.jpg" alt="Bière Singha en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;La seule des bières Thailandaises que je bois. 31 baht pour une canette de 33 cl et 5% d'alcool (avnt 6%, ils l'ont réduit). La seule qui mérite le nom de bière suivant mes standards européens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et puis il y a les autres, toutes les étrangères brassées en Thailande, plus chères et plus connues, L'Asahi Japonaise, la Tiger Singapourienne, La Heineken Hollandaise. Ma préférence allant à la Japonaise, Asahi. Elle est sur une des photos ci-dessus, 31 baht pour une canette de 33cl.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Transport link between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam officially declared open</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/835r.JPG" alt="Bridge to Savannakhet and Laos, over the Mekong river in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7124/Transport-link-between-Thailand-Laos-and-Vietnam-officially-declared-open.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>La nourriture d'Isaan et de Mukdahan. Et du fleuve Mékong.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis allergique à assez bien de choses, ce qui m'a conduit à l'hôpital plus d'une fois. Mais je ne suis pas allergique au poulet et au poisson. Ce que je préfères, surtout, c'est le poulet. Sous toutes ces formes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/791r.JPG" alt="Nourriture d'isaan à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Mais à Mukdahan, rien ne vaut un restaurant le long du fleuve, où vous avez la vue et le meilleur poisson que vous ayez jamais mangé. Et cela pour très peu d'argent, comme dit mon père. Ce qui pour lui le rend encore meilleur... &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/814r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/812r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/813r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et le poisson ne vient pas de loin. Il vient de la petite ferme aux poissons à quelques mètres du restaurant. Difficile d'avoir plus frais.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Fish farm in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/810r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et voici le poisson que mon papa aime le plus. Et moi aussi, sutout le sel qu'ils mettent sur la peau quand ils le cuisent. Je suis en fait celui qui mange la peau.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mekong fish in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/830r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt; Et plus d'infos ici &lt;font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c0c0c0" size="2"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=155&amp;tabid=64" name="Isaan food in Mukdahan"&gt;Nourriture d'Isaan à Mukdahan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Isaan food in Mukdahan and fish from the Mekong river</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I'm allergic to eggs and seafood, but not to fish and meat. And when I go to Mukdahan, I get plenty of both. And I just love it. And it is very cheap there, says my father.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And you can eat next to the Mekong river, where not only the food is good, but the view is also.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/814r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/812r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/813r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan restaurant next to the Mekong river" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And you know where the fish comes from, from a small fish farm, a few meter away from the restaurant. Can't be fresher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/810r.JPG" alt="Fish farm in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And here is the fish my father just love. And me also. Especially the skin. They cook the fish with a lot of salt on the skin and I just love it. My parents can only eat the meat, the skin is for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/830r.JPG" alt="Mekong fish in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;But my favourite is still chicken, not from the same restaurant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/791r.JPG" alt="isaan food in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt; And more of it here &lt;font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#c0c0c0" size="2"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=155&amp;tabid=64" name="Isaan food in Mukdahan"&gt;Isaan food in Mukdahan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>L'étrange nourriture vendue sur le marché de Mukdahan</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je suis allé visiter ma grand-mère à Mukdahan le week-end passé et durant cette visite, je suis non seulement allé sur le  &lt;a name="Marché d'Indochine à Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=101&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché d'Indochine&lt;/a&gt;   mais aussi sur le &lt;a name="Marché aux légumes à Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=152&amp;tabid=64"&gt;marché&lt;/a&gt; où l'on vend de la nouritture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On y vend des légumes, épices, viande, poissons et de la nourriture pour le moins étrange. Ma maman y allait pour acheter des champignons pour retourner à Bangkok.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et  moi je suis allé juste à côté des champignons, où on pouvait acheter ceci&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Marché de Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/757r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Et aussi de qui semblait être des écureils volant&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ecureuils sur le marché de Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/774r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Ceux-là me faisaient assez peur, je n'ai pas osé les toucher. Mais pas de problème avec ceux qui vivaient encore, dans le sac bleu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ecureuils sur le marché de Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/761r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(21, 174, 231); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;J'ai même porté le sac pendant un certain temps, mais pas trop près quand même. Au grand amusement du vendeur.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/760r.JPG" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/760r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et quand je suis rentré à la maison, j'ai tout raconté à ma grand-mère qui a été fâchée sur ma maman. Je ne pouvais rien toucher sur le marché, c'est trop sale, dit-elle, après je vais être malade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Mais moi j'aime ce qui est sale et surtout faire ce que je ne peux pas faire &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beggars in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In Thailand, and especially in Isaan, we do not let anybody down in the family. Family is sacred, all for one and one for all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this is why you do not see beggars in Isaan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But why was this man sitting in the middle of the &lt;a name="Wet market in Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/wet+market.aspx"&gt;wet market&lt;/a&gt;, in Mukdahan?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="640" alt="Thai beggar in Mukdahan" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/775r.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Maybe he has no family to take care of him? But seeing him sitting alone in the middle of the alley made me feel very uncomfortable, I just did not know what to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And everybody was looking at me, what is the luk kreung going to do?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;And I ran to my dad and mum, and asked them some money. To give to him. They gave me baht 20  and I gave it to him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;But he still did ne look at me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;I found it very strange and still do not understand why he was there. Alone.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Strange Isaan food at Mukdahan wet market</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I was recently visiting my grand mother in Mukdahan and, as usual, went to the &lt;a name="Indochina market in Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/indochina+market.aspx"&gt;Indochina Market&lt;/a&gt; in the afternoon, along the Mekong river. But I also went to the &lt;a name="Wet market in Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/wet+market.aspx"&gt;wet market&lt;/a&gt;, where my mother wanted to buy mushrooms to go back to Bangkok, lot of mushrooms.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And what were they selling next to the mushrooms?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/774r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan wet market, isaan food" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was quite scared at first, they sure do not look too good. I did not like at all the dead ones but did not mind the half dead ones in the blue bag.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/761r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan wet market, isaan food" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even carrying a bag for a while, but keeping them as far as the length of my arm would allow. What the guy selling them found pretty amusing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/760r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan wet market" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;And it was not the only strange food I saw there&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="426" height="640" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/757r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan wet market, isaan food" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we came back home, my grand mother was very angry on my mother. She said I can not touch anything on the wet market. Soka prok, she said, meaning dirty in Thai. Well, I'm a small boy, the dirtier, the better. &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/shades_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Un millier de moines venus à Mukdahan pour prier pour le Sud de la Thaïlande</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/741r.JPG" alt="Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7114/Un-millier-de-moines-venus-a-Mukdahan-pour-prier-pour-le-Sud-de-la-Thailande.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>One thousand monks in Mukdahan praying for peace in the South of Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="640" height="427" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/754r.JPG" alt="Hundreds of monks in Mukdahan main street" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7113/One-thousand-monks-in-Mukdahan-praying-for-peace-in-the-South-of-Thailand.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cheese in Thailand</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Do you like cheese?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You probably do if you're from continental Europe, especially the French.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But well, the Thais do not really like cheese. Or said differently, Thais never tasted cheese when they were young and hence, are not used to the taste. And the smell. So they do not buy it and no cheese is produced in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And  for cheese lovers, the only choice is the imported ones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And imported means not really cheap. Photo taken in Carrefour Bangkok 2 days ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cheese in thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/712.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But did I say it is expensive...? &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cheese in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/713.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Baht 498 is more than Euro 10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, if you can't live without cheese and come to Thailand, bring some with you... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prix des fromages en Thaïlande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Les Thailandais n'aiment pas le fromage. En général, on n'aime pas ce qu'on ne connaît pas...Donc, il n'y a pas de production de fromage en Thailande, tout est importé, et donc très cher.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et pour ceux qui lisent ce blog et aiment le fromage, un conseil, si vous venez en Thailande et aimez le camenbert, je vous conseille d'en emmener avec vous... &lt;img src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Photo prise au Carrefour de Rama 4 à Bangkok aujourd'hui&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/713.jpg" alt="Camenbert au carrefour de Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;498 baht est environ 10 euros.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et une autre&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/712.jpg" alt="Fromages en Thailande" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et bon, si vous pouviez en prendre un peu pour moi aussi, ce n'est pas de refus... &lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/embaressed_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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