Saturday, September 23, 2006

If you were here...

[These are written mainly for my family, but I thought all would enjoy seeing the pictures of places I've visited recently.]

Mom: If you were here, I would take you to the Jim Thompson house museum. We got a tour of it today and the houses and gardens were so beautiful and interesting. He was a true artist - in addition to building up the silk industry in Thailand, he was also an architect who construction this amazing house complex we visited by acquiring and relocating 6 different teak buildings (most 2 or more centuries old) from all around Thailand. He filled them with all kinds of (mostly very old!) Thai, Chinese and other Asian and European art (statues, paintings, furniture, etc.). It was all so very neat to see.


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