In other words – more shopping.
Another lazy start to the day, with a swim about 8am. This time I made sure I was down to breakfast well be fore it closed. As usual for these places there were a multitude of selections with eggs, other hot food for the American breakfast such as waffles and pancakes, a pastry section, a salad selection, cereals and yoghurt, Asian, Indian and Muslim sections.
The cityscape is the daylight equivalent of the photo taken the other night. In the background is the tallest building in Bangkok, although from this angle it looks smaller than some of the nearer buildings. It has a huge ad for BMW on its side.
About 11-30 I headed for Chatachuk Weekend Markets on the underground train. This hotel is situated about 500m from both a sky train and a Metro station. It takes about 30minutes to get there and costs about $1.05. This is a huge version of the local markets seen around the city and most towns in Thailand and is frequented as much by the locals as by tourists. It has a couple of streets in a sort of a pentagon shape, with stalls lining them and then between these are under cover pavilions with a grid of lanes and smaller side lanes. The stalls are grouped into similar types so there are various areas of different sorts of clothing, home wares, arts and crafts, books and so forth. It can be quite hot and oppressive inside.
There are numerous places to eat and drinks as well. It was about 4 hours till I got home and although I spend a fair bit of time there I didn’t buy all that much – some golf socks, a book, a watch and food and drink. There were lots of jeans stalls selling (probably) copies of Levis and other brands. I wasn’t prepared to buy something I couldn’t try on and most of the women’s jeans were hipsters anyway. Since most Thai women on the train barely reach my chin, it is difficult finding clothes that are likely to fit. I was looking for a particular book - a pictorial dictionary -but didn't find it.
After cooling off I headed to the corner for a foot massage. For this style, you sit in a reclining chair while they massage your feet and calves mostly. However with the 1 hour massage, I also got my arms neck head and shoulders done as well: More or less everywhere but the back.
Somewhat more relaxed, I loaded up my laptop in its bag, with virtually nothing else so it wasn’t too heavy, and headed back to Pan Trip Plaza. There the guy I had seen the day before explained how to get the pirated games working, if you were to buy them. I also looked at some other mp3s and DVDs. The newer ones are obviously videoed in the theatre and are poor quality. I also scouted around for SD cards for the camera but as it was after 8, most of the shops were shutting or had already shut, so no luck there.
As I was heading back to the sky train, I discovered a Big C department store (Think Target+Coles combined) that I hadn’t noticed yesterday. Here I did buy some cheap jeans, since I could try them on, and also a T-shirt as I’d some how miscalculated and didn’t have a clean one left for tomorrow. Next - a visit to the supermarket section for drinks and nibbles. It was a bit of an effort carrying it all back to the hotel and I was quite hot and bothered by the time I arrive. I downed a litre of water in nothing flat.
I’d had some corn from a street stall betwen Pa Tip and Big C so I really didn’t feel like eating anything else once I'd got back and unpacked the shopping..
I’m getting up at 6 tomorrow, so once I finish this, it will be time to pack and head to bed.
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