Spent sunday with Lawrence - an agent for us from Bali via The Netherlands. Started the day off by enjoying the most amazing breakfast buffet I've ever seen. And therefore we ate and ate and ate. Love the watermelon juice. Quite refreshing.
After we stuffed our stomachs and made up stories of all the people sitting around us, we met up with Lawrence and took a combination of boat and sky train to the Weekend Market. Incredible place which words really fail to describe. People, smells, and crap to buy. The animal section made me very sad and I got yelled at for petting a puppy. Thank god there were not too many cats to be seen or we would have been bringing them all home!
Made some good deals (we hope) on old beads and the proceeded to wander around following Lawrence for the entire afternoon. Salai met up with some old vendor friends and I walked away with a beautiful new silver cuff. (because one can never have too many.)
Late afternoon we took the metro (underground) to Lumpini park, largest park in Bangkok, and wandered around till we found Suan Lum - a night market where vendors sold much of the same crafts as the weekend market.
Took a taxi back to Silom village (to complete our exploration of all ways to travel in Bangkok) where Salai negotiated further for more old beads. (because one can never have too many.) Heading home we lost the sky train so we wandered until we found the river and took our boat home. "Where did the sky train go?" was Salai's constant question.
I keep asking myself - how has Salai managed to get around all these years?
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