Coup Coup Ca Choo
(writing from Vientiane, Laos)
Though we heard some tourists muttering about CNN during our visit to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi today, we didn't learn of the coup in Thailand until we boarded the plane for Laos this afternoon. As we found our seat, we picked up a copy of Vietnam News, a govenernment authored English language daily. An understated article on the bottom of their front page mentioned "Coup in Thailand", underneath the headline of continued British foreign aid. Our good friend Kelly lives in Bangkok, and she gives the most interesting report. The photo here is not mine (duh) -- kudos instead to Google and the Shanghai Daily News.
Meatime, for those who are worried about us, we are fabulous! We've been traveling South to North through Vietnam and will post photos and stories on our adventures in the coming days. We do need to return to Bangkok to connect to Delhi, so our travel plans will return us to coup-land. Although the junta government closed the overland border just over the Mekong to our South, the
Bangkok Post says the airport will remain open -- though I doubt "Bob James" has the ear of General Boonyaratkalin. The US Embassy in Thailand gives vague wait-and-see advice, and we'll continue to monitor their website. We'll also stop by the US Embassy here tomorrow to find out more.
(writing from Vientiane, Laos)
Though we heard some tourists muttering about CNN during our visit to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi today, we didn't learn of the coup in Thailand until we boarded the plane for Laos this afternoon. As we found our seat, we picked up a copy of Vietnam News, a govenernment authored English language daily. An understated article on the bottom of their front page mentioned "Coup in Thailand", underneath the headline of continued British foreign aid. Our good friend Kelly lives in Bangkok, and she gives the most interesting report. The photo here is not mine (duh) -- kudos instead to Google and the Shanghai Daily News.
Meatime, for those who are worried about us, we are fabulous! We've been traveling South to North through Vietnam and will post photos and stories on our adventures in the coming days. We do need to return to Bangkok to connect to Delhi, so our travel plans will return us to coup-land. Although the junta government closed the overland border just over the Mekong to our South, the
Bangkok Post says the airport will remain open -- though I doubt "Bob James" has the ear of General Boonyaratkalin. The US Embassy in Thailand gives vague wait-and-see advice, and we'll continue to monitor their website. We'll also stop by the US Embassy here tomorrow to find out more.
posted by backandzella at 8:26 AM
1 Comments:
From the not so sublime to the very ridiculous, I like your choice of font much more than the one that Kelly has opted for.
An interested party.......from Memphis.
(Born in 1947).
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