So back in Bangkok and a balmy 37 deg C!!!! So humid the sweat just drips off you as soon as you walk out the door and it's getting hotter by the day. So went for a walk down to Chinatown today, holey crap, I never knew there were so many things out there that you could eat....apparently. From giant fruit (like the size of your head, and I'm talking apples and pears people!!), chickens feet, what looked like a butt hole with attached alimentary tract..., big black sea slug things, dried eels and prawns (mmm appetising looking), things resembling stomachs or something of various sizes, you name it, it was there!!!!! You're not starving, you don't need to eat this stuff!!!!!! What are you doing, there is no meat on a chickens foot!!!!!!!!! It was all pretty cool though and I think I must have wandered off the track cos I was the only foreign person I met for about 2 hours, in Bangkok Chinatown! So after all that excitement I decided to head to the cinema, film was a bit mundane (The Good Shepherd) though worth it just to stand for the honour the King bit with all of us standing up (no dancing involved this time...). Got a pressie from Is, a green furry snake thing that moves as if by magic, a book about Tony Hawks adventure around Ireland with a fridge (v funny) and some floss, bless her, Thanks Is :-)
Bangkok is a crazy place! It's one of those places more western than the west. Like Hyperwest. The cops are like you'd imagine some Japanese comic artist drawing them Judge Dredd style even the motorbikes, the young people (you know, people my age) it's all about the style, feel like I'm walking through Bangkok Fashion Week all the time, as the tramp man. And Dunkin Doughnuts and 7/11 are as much an institution here as they are in the US, actually the 7/11's are about the only shop open after 10. The Skytrain is v swanky and when I transferred to the underground today it was like descending into something in between Gattaca and Demolition Man, very futuristic and incredibly clean, Ireland and UK take note! Of course there's traffic and pollution but it's nowhere near Dehli (ok I'll shut up about India!) and anyway it's all so organised, crazy chaotic my ass Lonely Planet. So anyway I quite like it though I doubt the rest of the country is like this, in fact I hope it isn't cos I'd like to see the real Thailand. So off to meet up with Derek again tomorrow, Chiang mai direction ie North. Will put up the few photos I have when I get there cos Der has the card reader and adapter to charge my camera back up. Hope everyones well. Keep sending those emails, they're keeping me going, I know it's slow getting replies to you all. Thanks :-) Ciao for now.
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