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    <description>Blog about the daily life and what makes the news in Thailand. Written by an expat and an Eurasian in Thailand -  Blog sur la vie de tous les jours et sur les nouvelles du jour en Thailande. Ecrit par un expatrié et un eurasien en Thailande.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:53:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Les bâtiments de Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Quand vous Bangkok a assez bien de beaux bâtiments et beaucoup on plus de 30 étages. Et donc afin de prendre des photos de Bangkok, vous devez juste vous rendre dans un de ces buildings et ouvrir la fenêtre, si ouvrir la fenêtre est possible. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Trois des photos sur cette page ont été prises d'un bâtiment situé sur Sathorn Sud et la dernière depuis le haut du plus grand bâtiment de Bangkok, le Baiyoke.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Unfinished building along the Chao Phraya river - Un bâtiment inachevé le long de la rivière Chao Phraya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1183.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="A view of the Shangri-La hotel and South Sathorn Road" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1184.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Thaksin bridge over the Chao Phraya river - Le pont Thaksin au-dessus de la rivière Chao Phraya" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1185.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="A view from the top floor of Baiyoke Tower - Une vue du haut de la tour Baiyoke" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1182.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai et sur la &lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prendre des photos le soir à Pattaya </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Quand vous voulez prendre des photos la nuit, vous avez soit besoin d'utiliser un flash, soit besoin d'un objectif ayant une grande ouverture. Mais bon, plus l'ouverture est grande, plus le prix de l'objectif est grant. Et c'est exponentiel. Sauf pour le 50mm f1.8 de Canon. le meilleur rapport qualité-prix, de très loin, de tous les objectifs Canon. Quelques photos prises à Pattaya la nuit avec cet objectif.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1179.jpg" alt="Thai girl walking on Pattaya walking street - Fille Thailandaise marchant sur la rue piétonnière de Pattaya" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1180.jpg" alt="Thai girls and an umbrella on pattaya walking street - Filles Thailandaises et vendeur de parapluies à Pattaya" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1181.jpg" alt="Thai waitress in a bar on pattaya walking street - Srveuse Thai dans un bar à Pattaya" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai et sur la &lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Farangrakthai Thailand photos" target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/"&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Coupe de cheveux à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Je vais chez le coiffeur assez régulièrement, tous les deux mois environ. Je n'aime pas les cheveux longs, il fait trop chaud à Bangkok pour avoir les cheveux longs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ce matin, nous étions à environ deux mois de ma dernière coupe de cheveux et nous sommes donc rendus chez le coiffeur situé au premier étage du Lotus de Rama 4 à bangkok. Je dis nous, c'est à dire mon père et moi. Il avait aussi besoin de se couper les cheveux, enfin c'est ce qu'il dit, je n'ai pas vraiment vu beaucoup de cheveux à couper sur sa tête...&lt;img alt="" src="/frt/Providers/HtmlEditorProviders/Fck/FCKeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Voici donc quelques photos prises par mon papa ce matin chez le coiffeur. Je n'ai pas l'air heureux, mais cela n'est pas parce que on me coupe les cheveux mais parce que je n'aime pas être pris en photo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1173.JPG" alt="Coupe de cheveux au Lotus Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1176.JPG" alt="Coupe de cheveux au Lotus Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1178.jpg" alt="Coupe de cheveux au Lotus Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1175.JPG" alt="Coupe de cheveux au Lotus Rama 4 à Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et voilà, c'est fini, tranquille pour deux mois &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>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cutting my hairs in Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I go cutting my hairs quite often, my parents do not like me having long hairs and well, I do not like it either. Bangkok is just too hot to have long hairs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I went to the hairdresser this morning with my dad. We both needed a haircut.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are a few pictures we took. I do not look happy but I actually was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Cutting hairs in Lotus on Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1173.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cutting hairs in Lotus on Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1176.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cutting hairs in Lotus on Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1175.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Cutting hairs in Lotus on Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1177.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyway, now it is over, no more hairs cutting for about one month&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Aéroport Suvarnabhumi à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Nous sommes allé à l'aéroport Suvarnabhumi de Bangkok (prononcez Sawanapoom airport si vous dmandez à un chauffeur de taxi de vous y conduire) hier soir vu que mes parents retournaient en Europe apès des vacances en Thailande. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt; Nous avons donc eu l'occasion de prendre quelques photos avec le Canon 450D et le grand-angle Canon EFS 10-22mm. Je préfère l'aroport le soir, la lumière bleue le rendant plus beau après la tombée de la nuit.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="View of the outside of Suvarnhabumi airport in Bangkok at night" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1169.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="View of the outside of Suvarnhabumi airport in Bangkok at night" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1167.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="View of the outside of Suvarnhabumi airport in Bangkok at night" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1170.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The entrance - L'entrée&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Entrance of Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok at night" src="http://farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1172.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Thai Airways check-in - Les comptoirs d'renregistrement Thai Airways&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Thai Airways check-in at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok at night" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1166.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Pour aller des Départs aux Arrivées&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Escalator going from Departure Hall to Arrival Hall in Suvarnhabumi airport in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1171.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai et sur la &lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;br /&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mon jardin à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Nous aimons les fleurs et en avons beaucoup dans nôtre jardin à Bangkok. je vous montre sur cette page 3 photos prises dans nôtre jardin montrant 2 orchidées et une fleur rouge dont je ne connais pas le nom.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt; Les photos ont été prises avec un Canon 450D et l'objectif Canon EF 24-105mm pour 2 d'entre elles et une avec l'objectif le moins cher de Canon, le 50mm f1.8mm.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1154.jpg" alt="Orchid in farangrakthai's garden in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1155.jpg" alt="Orchid in farangrakthai's garden in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1153.jpg" alt="Red Thai flowers in farangrakthai's garden in Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mukdahan night market - Marché de nuit de Mukdahan</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Mukdahan is a very lively city. You've got a market along the Mekong river during the day &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=101&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Indochina market&lt;/a&gt; and another one in the evening &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=159&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Night market&lt;/a&gt; .So you always have something to do there. If you like markets, that is. I, for one, love them, especially in Thailand, plenty of photos to be taken on markets. The ones on this pages have been taken on Mukdahan night market with the usual Canon 450D and its favourite lens, the Canon EFS 10-22mm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Mukdahan est une ville très vivante. Vous y trouverez un marché de jour, le long du Mékong, le  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=101&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché d'Indochine&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;et un autre le soir, le &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=159&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Marché de Nuit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt; . Et donc vous y trouverez toujours quelque chose à faire. Si vous aimez les marchés, bien sûr. Je les aime beaucoup, surtout en Thailande, parce qu'ils vous donnet énormémént d'occasions de prendre des photos. Celles sur cette page ont été prises, comme d'habitude, avec un Canon 450D et son fidèle partenairele grand-angle Canon EFS 10-22mm.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Selling bras in Mukdahan night market" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1148.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Selling food on Mukdahan night market" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1149.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The pictures in higher definition can be found on Farangrakthai flickr account and the &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai et sur la &lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Phu Narom Hill in Mukdahan - La colline de Phu Narom surplombant Mukdahan</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you want to have a good view of the Mekong river, Mukdahan and Savannakhet, you should go to Phu Narom Hill, the hill that is overlloking Mukdahan. It is only a few km away from Mukdahan and there is a big parking and facilities on top of the hill. Everything brand new and so far no tourist. Highly recommended. You'll find 2009 December pictures on this page and pictures taken a few months earlier here : &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=156&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Phu Narom Hill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Si vous voulez avoir une vue splendide sur Mukdahan, le Mékong et Savannakhet, vous devez vous rendre sur la colline de Phu Narom qui surplombe Mukdahan. C'est à quelques kms de Mukdahan et cela vaut le voyage. Le dessus de la colline a été aménagé avec un grand parking, des jardins et nouveaux bâtiments dans l'attente de touristes qui ne viennent pas encore. C'est donc pour le moment désert. les photos sur cette page ont été prises en Décembre 2009 et des photos prises quelques mois plus tôt sont ici :&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=156&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Phu Narom Hill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The empty parking - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Le parking vide&lt;/font&gt; - Canon 450D - Canon 10-22mm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1140.jpg" alt="Phu Narom Hill in Mukdahan - La colline de Phu Narom à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;The empty parking and Mukdahan- &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Le parking vide et Mukdahan&lt;/font&gt; - Canon 450D - Canon 50mm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1141.jpg" alt="Phu Narom Hill in Mukdahan - La colline de Phu Narom à Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Mukdahan and the Mekong - Canon 450D - Canon 50mm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1138.jpg" alt="View of Mukdahan, Savannakhet and the Mekong river from Mukdahan hill" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Phu Narom Hill facilities - Canon 10-22mm&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1139.jpg" alt="Phu Narom Hill in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;The pictures in higher definition can be found on Farangrakthai flickr account and the &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai et sur la &lt;/font&gt;&lt;span id="dnn_ctr397_MainView_ViewEntry_lblEntry"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=118&amp;tabid=64" target="_blank"&gt;Gallerie Photo&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/" target="_blank" title="Farangrakthai Thailand photos"&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Visiting the Thai army - En visite chez les soldats Thailandais</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This one was taken with the Canon Ixus 100 IS. By my wife. The little farangrakthai looks a bit scared, and a bit pale. Without reason, I guess. Soldiers are generally pretty nice in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Cette photo a été prise avec un Canon Ixus 100 IS. Par ma femme. Le petit farangrakthai semble avoir peur, et est un peut pâle. Sans raison, les soldats sont en general bien sympathiques en Thailande.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Thai soldiers with a little Eurasian in Thailand" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1137.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A walk on Rama 4 sidewalk in Bangkok - Une promenade sur les trottoirs de Rama 4 à Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;If you like taking photos, you should take a walk in the streets of Bangkok, any street. You'll be sure to find something or somebody worth shooting. But do not expect it to be easy because the sidewalks in Bangkok are used for everything and anything but for walking...When I walk in the streets, I usually take the Canon lens 24-105mm, corresponding to a 38-170mm on my Canon 450D. I find it perfect for street shooting. The photos posted on this page were taken this morning on the sidewalk of Rama 4 in Bangkok, on the way to Carrefour department store. Some other photos taken in the streets can be found here &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=123&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Bangkok Streets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Si vous aimez prendre des photos, une promenade dans les rues de Bangkok vous ravira. Vous trouverez toujours quelque chose ou quelqu'un à prendre en photo vu que les trottoirs de Bangkok sont utilisés pour tout et n'importe quoi, à l'exception de la marche pour des piétons... Quand je suis dans les rues pour prendre des photos, j'utilises en général l'objectif Canon 24-105mm qui correspond à un 38-170mm sur le Canon 450D. Parfait pour moi. Les photos que vous verrez sur cette page ont été prises ce dimanche matin sur les trottoirs de Rama 4 menant au Carrefour.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;D'autres photos prises dans la rue sont aussi ici&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=123&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Rues de Bangkok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;Bicycle overtaking a pedestrian - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Un vélo dépassant un piéton&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Bicycle overtaking a Thai lady on Rama 4 sidewalk in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1135.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stairs in the middle of the sidewalk - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Escaliers d'une passerelle&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;&lt;img alt="Stairs leading to the street overpass on Rama 4 sidewalk in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1136.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Garbage bags - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Sacs poubelle&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;&lt;img alt="Garabage bags on the sidewalk of Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1133.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Guy on a motorbike selling brooms - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Un vendeur de balais à moto&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Guy on a motorbike selling brooms on rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1134.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thai flag floating in the wind - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Un drapeau Thailandais flottant dans le vent&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;&lt;img alt="Thai flag floating next to a Buddhist shrine on Rama 4 in Bangkok" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1132.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="left"&gt;The pictures in higher definition can be found on Farangrakthai flickr account - &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Les photos peuvent être vues en plus haute définition sur le site flickr Farangrakthai&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a title="Farangrakthai Thailand photos" target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/"&gt;www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Mukdahan bridge to Laos - Le pont de Mukdahan liant la Thailande au Laos</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;These 3 pictures were also taken with the Canon 450D and the lens 10-22mm. They show the second friendship bridge over the Mekong, between Thailand and Laos, linking Mukdahan and Savannakhet. It has been completed a few years back and resulted in quite a substantial increase of the tourist activity in &lt;a title="Mukdahan" name="Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=97&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Mukdahan&lt;/a&gt;. I actually just noticed during a visit for the New Year 2010 that you could go next to the Mekong and the bridge. I took one of the pictures there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Ces 3 photos ont aussi été prises avec le Canon 450D et l'objectif grand angle 10-22mm. Elles montrent le  deuxième pont de l'amitié sur le Mékong, entre la Thailande et le Laos, reliant Mukdahan et Savannakhet. Il a été terminé il y a quelques années et a grandement contribué à une augmentation de l'activité touristique à &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a title="Mukdahan" name="Mukdahan" target="_blank" href="http://www.farangrakthai.comhttp://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/LinkClick.aspx?link=97&amp;tabid=64"&gt;Mukdahan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt; J'ai en fait seulement rermarqué lors de ma dernière visite à Mukdahan, pour les fêtes de fin d'année 2009, que l'on pouvait se rendre au pied du pont, au bord du Mékong. D'où une des photos a été prise.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mukdahan second friensdhip bridge to Laos" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1130.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Mukdahan second friensdhip bridge to Laos" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1129.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Farangrakthai photography blog - Blog Farangrakthai sur la photographie en Thailande</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A new blog on this website? Why? We like Thai news and Farangthai life news but well, we'd like to post Thailand pictures not related to any news. And talk about photography. And this blog will be the one. The photos posted here are either in the &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Default.aspx?tabid=118" target="_blank"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt; or on the flickr website &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/" target="_blank"&gt;flickr/farangrakthai&lt;/a&gt; or both&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Nous inaugurons un nouveau blog sur farangrakthai.com. Pourquoi? Parce que nous aimons la photo et les autres blogs ne leur rendent pas nécessairement justice. Et donc voici le blog où nous allons parler photo. Vous retouverez les photos dans la gallerie photos &lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Default.aspx?tabid=118" target="_blank"&gt;Photo Gallery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;ou sur le site flicker&lt;/font&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farangrakthai/" target="_blank"&gt;flickr/farangrakthai&lt;/a&gt; &lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;ou sur les deux&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Canon 450D - Lens 10-22mm - Mukdahan&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1128.jpg" alt="Eurasian playing with dogs in Mukdahan" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This picture has been taken in Mukdahan, the little farangthai playing with dogs while his grand-parents are walking. Taken with favourite lens, the Canon 10-22mm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#c0c0c0"&gt;Cette photo a été prise à Mukdahan, le petit farangthai jouant avec des chiens et avec ses grand parents le suivant&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>La visite du Lycée Français de Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;J'étudies depuis maintenant 4 mois au Lycée Français de Bangkok et je parles maintenant beaucoup mieux français que lorsque j'ai commencé, en Septembre. Et j'aimes toujours autant d'y aller, j'ai plein de copains et mon maître est très sympa.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Je vais vous montrer aujourd'hui quelques photos de mon école et de ma classe.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Voici l'entrée de l'école&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1126.JPG" alt="Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et les classes&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1121.JPG" alt="Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1127.JPG" alt="Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;L'allée qui mène à la cantine et la salle de sports&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1122.JPG" alt="Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le stade et la piscine&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1123.JPG" alt="Stade du Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1124.JPG" alt="Piscine du Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sur la droite les classes de maternelle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1117.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Avec bien sûr le bac à sable pour les petits. Mais on l'utilise aussi parfois.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1119.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Le chemin qui mène à la cantine avec la cours de récréation des maternelles sur la droite&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1120.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Et ma classe&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1115.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1112.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1113.JPG" alt="Maternelles au Lycée Français de Bangkok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ma prof d'anglais, Claudia&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>A visit of the French School in Bangkok</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned on my last post quite some time ago, I now study at the French school in Bangkok. Actually I should say I now study at the Lycée Français International de Bangkok that follows the French Curriculum, from 3 years old to 18 years old. I am still at the very beginning, in kindergaten, and after 4 months there, I still love it as much as I did the first day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So today I will show you the school and my classroom.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is the entrance of the school&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1125.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Inside, the way to the canteen&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The classrooms&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1121.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The Kingergarten side&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1117.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1119.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The way to the canteen with the playground on the right side&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1120.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And my classroom&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/1112.JPG" alt="French School in  Bangkok (Lycée Français International de Bangkok)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, my English teacher, Claudia&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Keigo Sato, le petit garçon Thai qui cherchait son père Japonais</title>
      <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img alt="Keigo Saito, le petit garçon Thailandais qui cherchais son père Japonais" src="http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Portals/0/dnnPhotoGallery/387/691.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.farangrakthai.com/frt/Blogs/tabid/64/EntryId/7157/Keigo-Sato-le-petit-garcon-Thai-qui-cherchait-son-pere-Japonais.aspx&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <title>Keigo Sato is now reunited with his Japanese father</title>
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      <title>Khun Abhisit's latest Thailand promotion campaign, Thailand Shining Through</title>
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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://www.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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      <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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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://www.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;
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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;
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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://www.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;
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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://www.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://www.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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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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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      <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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      <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;
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&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://www.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://www.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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      <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://www.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://www.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;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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