Spent today wandering around the area on the other side of the river, getting my bearings. Straight across there is a shopping centre, River City, specialising in antiques, buddhas etc. which is all very swanky. Then behind that it's real Bangkok. It just changes, as you walk from the plaza, to being a dirty back street with lots of food carts doing street food. This is the crossing point for people that work in Bangkok but live in the (probably cheaper) west side of the river - think I've got that the right way round! There are also several tuk-tuk, motorbike taxis and meter taxis waiting here as the sheraton hotel is here, so you can't walk more than 4 paces without shouts of "taxi, taxi madam....tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk madam" all vying for business. I walk and
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