Chocolate massacre

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Lazy morning watching TV and reading paper in bed, then a nice long breakfast, reading my book. Then I set off for Silom to do some exploring. It’s very quiet as it’s a Thai national holiday this weekend. I was feeling sorry for them as they usually only get 6 - days holiday per year, then I discovered that there are 15 days of public holidays. Amongst the ”interesting” things I see here today are: a street food vendor who has decorated his cart with Christmas decorations, some men washing the street and some puppies in a cage at the side of a telephone box. I’m hoping that because they are in a cage, and not just left to wander the streets, that they belong to one of the street vendors. From here I walk back up towards the sky train station, and then Lumphini Park. I’m trying to find a Fertility Shrine. Not for any special reason!!! It’s a specific one recommended in the Nancy Chandler map, and it says it’s well worth a look. When I looked at the map, it’s on the road that runs between Suan Lum night bazaar and Lumphini Park, so I reckon it should be pretty easy to find. Wrong! I spend about 1 ½ hours walking up and down streets. The reason? I think I know a shortcut! So instead of just starting out at the bottom of Wireless Road where the night bazaar is, I think that if I walk diagonally across the park I should come out further up Wireless Road, nearer to where the Shrine is supposed to be. It doesn’t work out like that however and I spend about ½ an hour wandering around a large junction trying to find if one of the roads from it is Wireless Road. Most of this time is spent trying to actually get across the road! I give up after a while and head back into Lumphini Park, probably my favourite place in Bangkok, and spend some time people watching. Tonight for my entertainment is a huge aerobics class just inside the gates and a group of women doing yoga (I did actually stalk 3 women that I saw carrying yoga mats as I thought they may be heading towards a class). After dinner in a restaurant down little Soi I head back to the hotel. In my room when I get back there’s a bottle of sauvignon & petit fours from the f & b manager. I tell myself that I’ll have ½ tonight and the rest tomorrow, but by the end of the night it looks like chocolate massacre!

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Photos

Silom
decorated street vendor

Silom
washing the road!

Silom
washing the road!