Monday 21 September and Monday 28 September are both public holidays in Chennai - so naturally I've taken four days from my annual leave entitlement and flew to Thailand on Friday night. Once again the flights were on time - so I departed at twenty five past midnight and was checking into my hotel at 7.00 am Thai time on Saturday.
The news indicates a continuing instability in Thailand and the "Red Shirts" and "Yellow Shirts" continue to argue and fight over who runs the country and the consequences of the 2006 coup.
Just as long as they don't take over the airport like they did last year......!
About Me
- The Bloodaxe
- The Bloodaxe is a 55 year old Grammar School Educated Yorkshireman with a BSc Econ (Hons) from University College Cardiff (1977 to 1980). For degree he studied Economics and Industrial Relations – where he picked up Anarcho Syndicalism as a political philosophy. He also acquired an interest in rugby and thanks to a series by Michael Woods on the BBC the “Dark Ages” and history in general. He didn’t do history beyond second year at Grammar School – as he didn’t like the teacher and it was always about the boring bits (e.g. the life of an Anglo Saxon peasant) rather than the bloody bits (e.g. The War of the Roses or World War Two). Leaving university he found himself with a dead end company for three years before ending up in the Oil & Gas Industry – where he has worked for an international contracting company for over 25 years in Procurement. This has seen him work in places as varied as Ireland, Italy, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the USA, China and India. Most of this travel has been during the past ten years. He continues to read quite a bit of history and subscribes to The Economist and The New Statesman magazines.
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