In five minutes in Glasgow city center, you will very likely hear five different languages spoken, and English with accents from five different regions of Scotland as well.

We LOVE Thai food. Whenever we travel, we always try to find the Best Thai food around. On a recent trip to Chicago, we were very lucky to find the Best Thai Restaurant in Chicago! and...it was right near our vacation rental condo, on the Magnificent Mile!

FISH AND CHIPS AND WIENER SCHNITZEL

(LONDON BOOKENDS… AND A NOVEL PART OFAUSTRIA)

Language Ladders

Now closed (alas!)...

Chicago Vacation Rental on the Magnificent Mile

In recent months, Bangkok has been popping onto the TV for all the wrong reasons. Manic red- and yellow-shirted street protests, burning buses, chaos and anarchy -- what happened to all those Thai smiles we hear so much about?