Tag Archives: Vietnam

Laos – a Potted History


Laos is a landlocked country squeezed between China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia; it has a small population of about seven million yet it’s almost the same size as the UK.      A 50,000 year old skull was found recently; the oldest … Continue reading

Posted in Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Travel, vacation, war | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Oh what a lovely war II


As a young boy in the early 1970s I watched M*A*S*H which was set in the Korean War that raged from1950 until 1953. Jolly funny it was too and only years later did I realise that my childhood laughs were … Continue reading

Posted in Britain, Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Uncategorized, war | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment