My idea was to rent a bike and run around the valleys of the north but the weather has decided, without asking permission, to give me two days of rain, 3 to tell the truth.
2 hours of sun, one hour driving rain and intermittent electricity, the light went away almost every night!
is rainy season and I can not help it, grrr ...
Except for a brief excursion to the hilltop temple in 1500 with the usual steps to deal with (because all the places of interest are rising? To better understand the ephemeral existence of man, you could not even understand plain? No!) the rest of the time I spent wandering around the town, quite a waste of time especially at night when you met groups of Anglo-Saxon kid with bottles of Johnnie Walked and mega joint smoking in the street (say Pai, which is a bit 'as in Lao Vang Vieng oldest and only hippie, I would say a lot ...), in practice I had to give up any walks and views the short period of stay granted me, I decided to leave the place and head south, Ayutthaya to be exact.
Waiting for the bus I found myself in a very good vegetarian restaurant next to my table and a curious pair, he seventy-three and her elderly Scottish lady in Thai traditional dress, odd couple to be honest and not very talkative only big smiles.
now retired, and only with young adults, understood that to stay in Scotland (in a neighborhood of Italian) was no longer the case, could hardly walk for a few leg problems and the board came so hard to make ends meet Pai decided to travel and has known her.
For five years he married and moved to his house fell in love with this place, lives in a nearby village and every day for lunch with his wife is here on his Harley Davidson, although not speak much because of the apparent cultural distance living happily together, sharing the last years of their life, smiling, serene and no "ailments", even those left them to their previous life ... beautiful J .
Bus really kitsch plastic and studded with psychedelic colors, but with comfortable reclining seats. ... So comfortable for me to pass out and wake up in Bangkok K!
At 7 o'clock in the morning I find myself in the station disoriented and sleepy, the only positive note, no one noticed that I had to get 3 hours before so I asked the difference J .
Quickly I avoid taxis and tuc tuc on my way close to the bus station, with great serenity and take the third after 15 minutes I found K hao San Road, meeting of all the farang, only around taxi tuc tuc but not particularly insistent, some stranger sitting in the bar with the last pint and slightly distorted face and a few others around in costume with bare feet, there will be beaches I say, no, I think they are "mushrooms."
tour in search of a property but can not see, hard to find them among the thousands of bright signs and my sleeping brain ...
I find myself in a square and a guy comes up to me after the usual questions from the script tells me that up to 15 everything is closed today because party holy Buddha , in fact everything is closed but it is true that it is 8 o'clock in the morning, and I want to take a tuc tuc and take a trip to the city, now all the temples are and free entry for only 10 baht you roam around the city ... oh, well.
I type shows a route on the map and say hello to me.
I remain a bit 'banned but continue my research.
After another 10 minutes I stopped, a professor of literature (he says) and tells me the same thing as the first, at the end called a tuc tucchista , stops him and I head to Ayutthaya, I find myself with "one" and "ino" into the plush seat ready for the tour.
In my mind, something is wrong and feel the smell of chicken, I, however, including fatigue, sleep warm and I decide to let me roam around the city and after a couple of temples, I find myself in a jewelry store, enter 5 minutes you pretend to be concerned, I get a coupon for 5 gallons of gasoline and you do not pay me the race today, ok?
Holy Buddha, Feast of Buddha dancer, stuffed heads of Buddha, the Buddha 7 eleven, you can not trust even your shadow when you're in Khao San Road (or surrounding areas), it seemed the election campaign of Berlusconi, but despite an immediate understanding of What I enjoyed today and shot all the temples in 4 hours.
find accommodation for the night, not happy, I decided to use the same system to see the city "a free ride" in the afternoon.
Without a guy and say, Chinatown but instead of haggling on the price we do on the number of shops, they are one and J .
The Chinatown truer than ever in eight months of travel, surreal, absolutely film.
that will suit the Asia there are more Chinese and Asian ... let me explain better.
All shops, jewelers, restaurants, leather goods, suinerie, ect ... they are Chinese or mix with the locals.
Since I set foot in Nepal (Tibet actually) everything is Confucian ideograms.
All shops, jewelers, restaurants, leather goods, suinerie, ect ... they are Chinese or mix with the locals.
Since I set foot in Nepal (Tibet actually) everything is Confucian ideograms.
However since the first day I got an idea of \u200b\u200bthe city, at least the surrounding area, but something has changed in the evening.
At 22 all, and I mean everything, has closed its doors, including 7 Eleven , curfew for a week.
In fact there was no great movement of tourists to the area stracaotica farang, because of problems in recent days between the red shirts and the government have drastically decreased attendance.
to 22.30 So nothing was moving, streets, bars, shops, all closed, no cars it sounds, only 2, 3 guest very central with open bar and the people disappeared at night, except lady boy , as big as cats and rats the usual inevitable flying cockroaches ... and I J .
really surreal.
The next day I sballonzolo the city trying to figure out how to get to Cambodia, there are less than 3 days at the end of the stamp Thai and I must hurry, c on the usual move of the tuc tuc friend of my coupons I carry around for tens of tat, government tourism agencies (although they only Calderoli local government).
I find the cheapest for 600 baht, I take you gh withdrawn from the border and across the direction you riaccatano Siem Riepe.
Despite the location of tripmagazine it seems ok for the price and speed of the thing, of course, the visa I do it to me at the border.
After the procession seeking a new home, as usual I can not sit still and find a completely perfect in an area near the Thai river, a paradise even with the free wi fi, do not believe it, all the guest and hotels in the main rounds of hell while they are quiet and serenity reigns supreme, plus a few Western faces, idyllic.
certainly was not easy to find, turning the prices and services There were numerous, for example I found one really cheap rooms but not larger than the bed, that was wedged at an angle, but with the added special night.
words, the sisters of the owner, if desired, could entertain a "card" all night for two!!
No if you look at my problems are increased with advancing age is 9 months I bear myself 24 hours a day and I see beings of the opposite sex, then the two together, as your sisters, not really thank you.
Andrea, Bangkok
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