Good morning, it's hot and sunny here today in Bangkok. Last night we went to the Night Market which was quite an experience - narrow, covered, sweating hot alleyways with wee stalls selling clothes, lampshades, jewellery, art, lots of elephanty things etc and in the middle of all this was a huge eating area with a rock band belting it out. Folk were eating lots of unusual and interesting food, which we enjoyed looking at! The streets round the market at midnight were heaving with cars, taxis, tuktuks and noise. We walked back to the hotel and were stopped by a dozen taxis clearly wondering why we were walking.Today's first task was to find stationery for Hle Bee School. The hotel reception sent us to a store like Debenhams right across the road. We really wanted a Poundstretcher but how do you explain that in Thai? 'Bhatstretcher'? We bought 10 kilos of pencils, rulers, paper etc. We have an extra 20 kilos allowance on the next flight.
Now we are going to try to take the Skytrain to the River Chao Praya and sail up to the Royal Palace. Sounds easy....we'll see.
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I can see this is going to be a daily super read for us- well as long as you have access to the net. Bhatstretcher- love it. Still, you got the crayons etc. I wonder how we could keep the supply topped up once you are back. It would be a great thing to be able to assist in this from Friends of Forthview and Hi Bee!
Meeting with my dad who I havent seen for 43 years was weird but went very well. Tell you more when you are back.
Hope the trip up the river went well. Thai grub is great- well so speaks the dustbin of duddingston. Look forward to the next blog. Using Malcolm's google address as I cannot seem to access it from my own- silly me, forgot the password or username or both.
love to both of you,
R & M
xx
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