Thailand: Phuket Advice

Thai social behavior differ from Western — alot. You should be ready to change your common public activities according to local rules.

First of all you don’t have to take your (more…)

I always used sticks to eat sushi. It was unsuitable and stupid: rice falling apart in soy sauce making it impossible to grab with sticks. Seems like I was purely wrong with it – see this brilliant movie “how to eat at sushi bar”:

«Thai» means «free»: Thailand is the only country in South Asia which was never colonized.

There is +7 hours difference in time between Greenwich and Bangkok (Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Jakarta are all in same timezone) – GMT;
+6 hours difference with Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Belgrade, Kinshasa;
+15 hours difference with Los Angeles (PST);
+12 hours difference with New York (EST);
-3 hours difference with Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.

According to wikipedia, Thailand is on 49th place in the world by  (more…)