Secret Revealed

Nuts! You’ve done it again. You just can’t keep a secret, can you. This time it’s Hua-Hin, Thailand (“A Royal Retreat,” Traveling in Style, Oct. 21). Back in the 1960s, when I discovered Hua-Hin, it was a beautiful escape from the then-less-crowded Bangkok. Last time I was there, it was all the nicer, especially after a couple weeks in the Bangkok of the 1980s.

So now you tell the world about Hua-Hin. It’s a great service to your readers and I guess that’s what you strive for, but if it’s overrun with tourists in the 1990s, I’ll have to lay some of the blame on Stirling Silliphant’s fine story.

WILLIAM TIMLIN

Cypress