Bangkok’s actual official name is Krungthep mahanakhon amonratanakosin mahintara ayuthaya mahadilok popnopparat ratchathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasathan amonpiman avatansathit sakkathattiya witsanukamprasit. Ok well done whoever came up with that one then.
Wed 14th January was supposedly a good day to arrive in Bangkok- “National Lucky Day” a beaming Thai bloke smugly told ….a likely story…..but managed to get one rickshaw driver to take me to about ten of the best sights in the city, which took most of the afternoon, for just 20 baht (40 pence). All the sights were free to get in too.
I’m staying on the Khao San Road, a fairly hideous tourist quagmire where, of an evening, one will regularly be persued by a gang of Thai guys wearing sandwich boards that read ‘VERY STRONG COCKTAILS’. Enough said.
The food here will not stop jumping into my mouth. So many marvellous things; meals, and often in between meals, are exciting times.
On sale so far in Bangkok- several sets of second hand rather dirty dentures with a lot of teeth missing, a ‘digital perm’ (!!?) to go with some ‘permanent make-up’ and a scotch egg type device the size of your head.- people eating these can, for a short time, look as though they do indeed have a giant scotch egg for a head.
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