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Fresh look at Thailand: Where the Thais escape Bangkok to eat, play and chill

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Beyond Bangkok lies idealised European villas on cool hills, organic lemon groves and fluffy sheepdogs.

There is also a hip ceramics factory, an improbable railway market and an alpaca farm, all full of Thai whimsy.

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