A few nights in Bangkok to try and ease the jetlag. Katie loved the place as she, for the first time, felt tall. My lasting memory is the smell - not great. We all got very good at holding our breath when passing certain 'strong' food areas and markets.
Great appartment.
Where's Wally?
Shopping in MBK
We visited (3 times), Bangkok’s largest mal. Yes its vast, sprawling over 6 seemingly endless floors with a strange combination of branded stores and eating places, alongside market sellers who stock visually identical items but of lighter-weight construction and at only 50% of the cost. These were joined by a floor dedicated to electronics which had outlets from key manufacturers such as Canon, Mac and Sony right next to Game and DVD outlets which openly sold memory cards for hand held games that held 40+ of the latest games for only $20....I don’t know why that great idea hasn’t caught on elsewhere?!
One tip, the nation is filled with relatively small people, so when buying clothes, brace yourself for a slight increase in size……….or was it just me that needed shorts which closely matched my chest measurement?!
Day trip to the floating markets
A day trip to floating markets with a ride on the canal. I now know what happens to 2.8lt truck engines after the vehicle is scrapped – they get pivot mounted onto oversized flat bottomed canoes, fitted with scaffolding pipes for exhausts and then attached to a dinner-plate sized razor sharp propeller on the end of 10ft long drive shafts, which are dipped in and out of the water and swung around carelessly by the driver……..OMG, this combination of huge horse power and spinning blades has to have been classed as a weapon in the Western World and thus banned.
With a hull as flat as a Tea Tray, the boat was about as stable as the Greek economy, but that’s ok as all of the life jackets were neatly stowed in their packets in a cupboard at the front of the boat.
One seller on her way to the market, bit like a Thai 'Blue Casket'!
Window shopping Thai market style
The 'truck engine' revs up......ahhhhhhhhhh!
Local wood carver - a 9 month project, sadly didin't have room for it in the hand luggage
This looks like just a normal market, but look at the floor - its on an active trainline!
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Using the Skytrain
Rush hour was very very different
A walk in the park to finsh our day before taking the midnight flight back home.
2 comments:
OMG... the train through the market was the most amazing thing ! Great to see you guys. Really enjoyed watching your adventure over the break on this blog - funny stuff. Rope works, Canoe, Paul "Guru" Bate... it's all coming back to me. Lots of Love, Glenn and Jackie xx
What a fantastic holiday. Nice to see the UK put on a white christmas just for you guys! Enjoy your summer now you lucky things!! Happy Australia Day - spent the week making Lamingtons and ANZAC biscuits for school and excited as managed to get hold of some Crown Lager and Tim Tams!
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