Hi all, I am sorry to start this postcard whilst listening to Kerry going to town against Cork in the All Ireland semi final (so far 0-10 to 0-4). I was hoping to watch this in Murphy's bar Bangkok, but they are not showing it due to Setanta charging too much. Well this morning I was up at 6am to catch a bus to Kanchanbaburi. Now I was never one for the history books when at school, but I must admit that I was truly fascinated today at some of the hisroty and sites that I seen. Our first stop was to the Kanchanbaburi memorial site. There are thousands of headstones here from POW's from WWII. During the second worls war Japan decided to build a railway from Burma to Thailand. They used POW's and civilians. Over 15,000 POW's and 100,000 civilians died building the railway through poor conditions, malnutrition and mistreatment. It was part of WWII that I never knew much about. I knew the name of the bridge over the river Kwai (I think there was a film made with this name), but I never really knew the history behind it. The bridge itself is another part of the railway and next to the bridge was an art and war museum. The museum was very interesting and told you a lot of the history of WWII over this side of the world. It also told of what happend to the Japanese leaders when Japan eventually surrendered. 7 of them were excuted. After crossing the bridge over the river Kwai we then headed off for lunch. It was a lovely green curry. The place where we had lunch had elephant rides and they were hosing the elephants down when we were leaving. One elephant picked up the hose and started pouring the water into his mouth. It was very funny to see. Next we headed to a waterfall. Ravenscourt Park eat your heart out. It was like a water park with 100's of young Thai families and kids jumping in the water, sitting under the spray from the waterfall and relaxing on a Sunday afternoon. After an hour there we moved on to the tiger place. This was a forest where buddist monks used to stay and they took orphan tigers in as they had been abandoned as pets by people when they got bigger. The tigers would be left out from 1 till 5 and you could pet them. I have a few photos of me in my Cork Jersey petting the tigers, so I'll post them up when I get a chance. A description along the lines of a rebel taming the cats sounds appropriate although it will have to be the tribesmen we tame this september! All in all a great day returning to the Kho San rd after 7. The Kho San rd is some thing else by night. It is crazy. I am just listening to the secong half of the cork match and will then be going to see the lady boys. Lets hope cork can turn things around. COME ON THE REBELS Mick