Bangkok Week 453 March 2, 2017 What a busy week! Town-house-browsing, and a short trip to India. View fullsize The completed mural on BACC in honor of HM the King. View fullsize A very cute use of rebar and paper! View fullsize Celebrating Friday night at the new restaurant in Siam Discovery. View fullsize Sipping my evening tea. View fullsize It wasn't clear what this market was about. View fullsize Enjoying lunch at our favorite Khun Churn veggie restaurant in Ekamai. View fullsize Visiting this recently renovated shop house in Ekamai 22. View fullsize Very new, but bare-bones inside. View fullsize Nice loft-style stair case. View fullsize Really nice balcony space on the second floor. View fullsize The master bedroom on the second floor. View fullsize View from the third-floor balcony. View fullsize Next stop: the unique house in Soi 12! View fullsize There's a place to park your car. View fullsize The interior has been recently renovated... for business tenants. View fullsize There's a bar! View fullsize And a bit of a spooky kitchen. View fullsize Stairs heading up. View fullsize Master bedroom. View fullsize Still more master bedroom. View fullsize The best bathroom in town! View fullsize Second bedroom - with bathroom in back corner. View fullsize Alternate view of the second bedroom. View fullsize Balcony overlooking the street. View fullsize The neighbors. View fullsize The street. View fullsize Not far behind is a nursery school for one of the Singaporean international schools. View fullsize Here's a nice modern house! View fullsize The main street anchoring the neighborhood. View fullsize A cafe and bakery around the corner. View fullsize Another popular cafe. View fullsize This man has more guts than I do! View fullsize Coming back in the evening to check out the neighborhood. It's quiet!! View fullsize Is it haunted? View fullsize The shops along Ekamai are still alive at night. View fullsize Another meal at our favorite Veggie friends. View fullsize Pomelo salad! Haven't had it in a while! View fullsize The editor of Thai's Sawasdee Magazine was in an awfully punny mood this past month! View fullsize Arrived safely in Kolkata! Although they have one honker of a visa stamp! View fullsize Making my way into the city from the airport. These Hindustan Ambassador taxis are still everywhere! View fullsize What classy taxis! View fullsize Some new experiences at breakfast. For example, 6 types of flaky cereal. (One looked decidedly spiced!) View fullsize And six types of yoghurt and "curd". View fullsize Some cutesy butter? View fullsize It is great - every food item is labeled veg or non-veg! (Although to them, egg counts as non-veg.) View fullsize Selling snacks out of the back of a truck. View fullsize Literal bumper-to-bumper parking. View fullsize Three colorful vehicles in a row. View fullsize A blurry shot of the Victoria Memorial as we zoomed by... View fullsize ... opposite the road to which were several gilded horse-drawn carriages. View fullsize A fountain in the road. View fullsize Everyone hangs their laundry out to dry! View fullsize More laundry. View fullsize The buses are very colorful indeed! They compete with Bangkok's on age. View fullsize Gupta Sweets -- *all* sweet and snack items! All of them! View fullsize Ornate balconies! View fullsize Women shielding themselves from the sun... and some stray dogs. There were *LOTS* of stray dogs! View fullsize That's a serious bunch of coconuts! View fullsize Covering the motorcycles to shield from the dust? Does it work? View fullsize Men standing around ... rickshaws ... street stalls ... could be SEA! View fullsize Just waiting for the bus. View fullsize Another rickshaw zipping by. View fullsize The road is torn up because of construction of an elevated train. View fullsize The tuk-tuks are painted exactly like Bangkok's private taxis! View fullsize Nice old trees. View fullsize Perhaps really waiting for a bus. View fullsize And this lovely immigration queue was waiting to bid me a fond farewell. Good-bye for now, India!
