Day 7 – the sleep-in never really eventuated as we were awake at 7:30 so we packed our bags had breakfast and a shower and quit the hotel for a transfer to Gareth’s. We wasted 30 minutes waiting for a tuk-tuk only to be told upon checking that they weren’t running in our street at the time so grabbed a cab which turns a 500 metre journey by foot to about 3kms by road. Gareth then took us on the BTS Train from Chang Nansi to Siam (3 or 4 stops) where there are several large inter-connected malls where Julie and I spent a couple of fruitless hours trying to find a new pair of eyeglass frames. In one up-market mall on the third floor, of all places, they had ‘shops’ selling Rolls Royces, McLarens, Maseratis,
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