10 minutes until curfew and I’m running out of food in my apartment (particularly snacks). I ran to the shop downstairs in my pajamas with my sandals slipping on the floor. Then I realised that I had locked my room key in my apartment. Sigh! I now had to get another key AND food before [...]
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Cabin Fever: Curfew In Bangkok
Posted in Bangkok, Politics, tagged Bangkok, Curfew, Food, Military, Politics, Red Shirts, Security, Thailand, travel, War on May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Bangkok Dangerous
Posted in Bangkok, Politics, tagged Bangkok, Lumpini, Military, News, Politics, Red Shirts, Thailand, travel, War on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning the government announced a military crackdown and they have been clearing the city of protesters. Clearing meaning using live ammunition that has killed at least 5 people – mainly civilians, but also members of the press and protesters. The main commercial and business districts in the city have become a war zone. But [...]
MIA in Bangkok
Posted in Bangkok, Politics on May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to be MIA for a while. Things are insane in Bangkok, so I will be staying at my friends’ house outside of the city for a while. If I don’t get home before I leave for Burma then I will not be online until the 1st of June. Fear not! I am safe!!!
Bangkok Ghost Town and Battle Field
Posted in Bangkok, Politics, tagged Bangkok, News, Politics, Sala Daeng, Thailand, United Nations, War on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now that Bangkok is a war zone, the city is a ghost town. I went out for a while last night and there wasn’t anyone anywhere. My street stalls were closed so I had to snack on cookies and ice cream, the pubs and bars were empty and the streets quieter than they have ever [...]
A riot shield and a hammock
Posted in Bangkok, Politics, tagged Bangkok, Hammock, Politics, Red Shirts, Sala Daeng, Silom, Thailand, travel on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As everyone knows, the political situation in Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is not one that is very content or very peaceful. Working in Silom, only a sky-train station away from the bombing at Sala Daeng, there are police and military troops everywhere. Each morning, I get off the train and walk past the rows of police [...]
