Lizards in the park, chedis on the roundabout.
After Stan kindly copied the photos from his phone I found that there are more than I thought. Most are from last weekend when Stan, Pook and I went to Ayutthaya for the day. Ayutthaya is the former capital city of Siam and has many ruins. There're also a selection of random pictures taken in and around Bangkok.
Just been up the road to the local Café and had the usual selection of roasted (think BBQ but with a small dish of chilli sauce) chicken, minced pork (think with garlic, chillies, spring onions etc) and papaya salad, which for some reason they took the liberty of making mild today. I would've preferred it to be hot like normal. I don't know why they did it today because I've eaten there a few times and had take away a few more and they've never reduced it's kick before. Maybe it was because I asked for them to not put nuts in it and they associate a dislike of nuts with a dislike of chillies when dealing with farang?
Anyhoo, because it was all tasty I stuffed myself and now I feel sleepy... Think I'll go and read and sunbathe on the balcony for a bit. To the distaste of many Thais. I've noticed a number of whitening skincare products so I had my suspicions but after talking with William (who joined me for lunch today) my suspicions have been confirmed: over here people consider being tanned to be "lo-so" (low society.) Presumably because historically poor people would have worked outside, farming etc, and couldn't afford to stay in the shade.
Right, enough talk, time to post some photos. Firstly, here are some random ones from in and around Bangkok taken over the last couple of weeks. The picture of Aunty Anne's pretzel place is dedicated to my aunty Ann, in case you were wondering. I've not suddenly become a fan of fast food.
Next up are the photos from Ayutthaya where we went on Sunday.
Whilst we were in Ayutthaya we went to Wat Yai Chai Mongkol which is where these last few were taken.
I'm going to curtail my blogging activities and sally forth yonder to the balcony. Toodle pip.
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