In honour of the consumer occasion celebrating the purchase of flowers and chocolates we visited the local flower market. Funny looking flowers at this market Large variety of colours available.. Hang on, are you sure this is the flower market? I suppose they could be flowers. Busy. busy busy the Thai people, always doing something… OK, well maybe not all the time.. So there you have it, a trip to the flower market, that didn’t really feature many flowers at […]
It’s official! This map of Bangkok is rubbish. How can you have a map which doesn’t even include the sky train route? It would be like buying a copy of the London A-Z to discover there were no tube stations marked on it. To be honest, you’d be better off looking at a plate of spaghetti. Rant over.
Jim Thompson was a general all round good guy who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. His house is a museum and very quaint it is too. Actually, it turns out he was probably run over by a truck in Malaysia, so not very mysterious after all. Still, let it be known if I get run over by a truck or expire in any other less-than-impressive fashion I want everyone to say “He died under mysterious circumstances.” Vaguely morbid part over, move […]
In fact a cursory glance at the menu in this restaurant revealed everything had shark’s fin in it. I suppose that will be one of those “it’s big and pointy it’ll make me big and pointy” Freudian things then.
…and it came back with all these pictures on. Me! Me! Take my photo! I’m small, but cute! Take note, Starfish are only interesting in pictures. In real life they are about as exciting as watching paint dry. It takes them half an hour to move about 1cm. A kind man insisted I touch it. It was hard and knobbly, just as you’d expect. These guys are definitely not camera shy.. Hermit crabs are cool, it’s official. Especially one’s which […]