Sunday 11th May
We hadn't the foggiest on how to get to the Chatu Chak Market but we put on our biggest smiles and the nice bus conductor lady made sure we got there safe and sound. As we went inside it looked similar to Camden Market and not all that big. But after walking around the laberinth of undercover walkways for a few hours it was easy to believe that there was actually 15,000 stalls! Once again the rain started to come down in buckets so we decided to stay under the cover of the tin roofs and do some hunt out some bargains. They had everything there from antiques, hand embroidered bags, cloths, cooking stuff and just about everything you could imagine, including a massive pet section!
Never before have you seen so many tiny little pedigre puppies all in one space! Chubby little St Bernards, fluffy pomerainians, andrex puppies, huskies, beagles all in small trays on the tables or in little cages. It was so nice looking at all the cute doggy wogs but felt bad for the ones that looked like they had passed out from the heat or were in a cage way to small for them :-( Also on offer were rabbits in floral dresses, weird albino hedgehogs, massive spiders and of course kittens, which had been fluffed up to the max just so nobody could resist them.
After spening hours lost in the maze and spending all we could allow ourselves it was time to get back outside in the never ending Bangkok rain.
Monday and Tuesday Gem was poorly. Thank God for Dr. Ned Chuckle (a mixture of Ned Flanders and a Chuckle Brother). Still Raining! Wednesday 14th May With Gem full of razzamatz and back to her normal self we felt the need to be good tourists and do some more sight seeing. When ever you see a travel programme on Thailand they always mention the huge reclining buddha situated in Wat Pho so we got one of Evil Knievels best pupils to give us a ride over there. Although the scale of this figure is really impressive, compared to the ancient stone sculptures we had seen in Sukhothai, it seemed to lack soul. It looked like a big plaster jelly mould that had been painted in cheap gold paint. The most skilled part of the figure was the inlayed mother of pearl images that decorated the soles of his feet.
In the afternoon we came back to the area near our guest house as we were waiting for a night bus to take us down to the south so that we can start exploring the islands. Unfortunately the rain started up again and by the time we got onto the bus we were drowned rats and freezing for the first time in ages!
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