Sunday 30 October 2011

Thailand Floods 2011


Thailand is currently facing its worst flooding in 50 years. Flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country, submerging rice fields and shutting down hundreds of factories while over 900,000 businesses have been impacted and hundreds of lives have been tragically lost. National relief efforts are now focused on providing essential food, clean water and shelter to displaced people and restoring damaged infrastructure to the Kingdom of Smiles. This is a photo of a a traffic island in a flooded road with very apt hedge cuttings.

RBL Big Push: From Bangkok to Phuket by Bike


RBL Big Push: Click this link to see more photos taken by Anthony Margetts, between Oct 20 and 30, 2011.
I have just completed the Big Push bike ride from Bangkok to Phuket to raise money for the Royal British Legion Charity. Ten riders (9 Brits and 1 Thai)
Now recovering back in flooded Bangkok after the bike ride. We rode 800km in 8 days through some of Thailands best countryside.
You can see some photos at http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article11294.html and at http://rblbigpush.wordpress.com/author/rblbigpush/