Too many people

First day in Bangkok

We slept to well, so failed to leave early for a visit to the Royal Palace. Breakfast was a little noisy. By the time we got there, 9am so did lots of guests. Along with Mrs Mills tinkering the ivory ‘s playing all Christmas songs, the Thai family next to us with the small boy playing some loud phone game and the pleasure boats passing with the female guide squawking away HELP. Breakfast was good though. The ferry to the Palace is 5 mins from us and cost 3.5 baht ( 10p) We arrived at the Palace. WOW is this some premonition of an Asian invasion. Thousands of people, most with umbrellas filing into the Palace entrance, the queues seemed never ending. We decide to give the Palace a miss. We came across the  national museum, in addition to their normal exhibits there was a temporary one of Terracota Warriors.

This exhibition was something else. Kodak moments everywhere and great for Sylvia having seen them in China 15 years ago.

On our walk back, I was guessing on directions, we found ourselves in the University grounds. No one seemed to mind, we went in a great student restaurant, nice place for lunch and very reasonable, no alcohol though. Ferry back to different pier. Where we had  to go through a market, first experience of Thai markets, interesting!! Spent rest of the day by the pool. Off to find a roof top cocktail bar. Back down to the market we found a hotel with a roof top bar. OK it’s not the Sky Bar, so no Sky Bar prices. Very good cocktails, interesting ingredients, like Gin with a fresh pepper corns on a stalk. We decide to eat there. The restaurant is down stairs. Both our main courses contained so much chilli we could be a fire eating act. Back to the hotel to cool off.

Tomorrow we are going to get up early ( we hope)and beat the rush, make that the two rushes (not rashers) the breakfast and the Palace.