Floating Market
One of the places we visited was a floating market that we seemed to be about the only white people at. It was way cool. Look at this picture closely.
Just off the picture to the right were many rows of people waiting for food and eating food that was / is prepared by these boats. What I wanted to show here was the boats and what is being cooked and how.
If you look closely you will see at the bottom of the picture a lady grilling whole scallops in the shell midway up you will see a lady grilling whole squid or calamari. Another detail to take note of is, under the sign you see what looks like a plate or pan with a long, very long, rod attached to it. Do you know what it is for? Tic tic, time is up… They place the ordered food into the pan and use the stick to give it to the people that ordered it. They in turn put money in the plate for the person that cooked the food. The young lady you see sitting down facing the boats helps in that process also.
If you haven’t noticed already…on the boats are tanks of propane used to cook with or, they have charcoal for the grills to cook the food on. Think they could do it that way in the states? I don’t think so, but it is so very common here. We like it.
Kingdom of Dave
This is my Dad’s place. No not his house but one of the Bungalows he rents out. He has three of these and an Octagon that is a duplex, basically. Now don’t forget the other three places in the back that aren’t so plush. The one in the picture even has a kitchen too.
It is very nice and a pleasant place to stay in along with a nice country feeling. Right now we are watching the rice farmers harvest the rice. I can tell you I am glad I am not out there working it. You can tell the older rice farmers because they are permanently bent over from the long hours of planting and harvesting rice.
Dang those rice knives, or whatever they are called are sharp too. So don’t piss off someone harvesting rice. I watched a lady come out of the field and make a slight move on a banana leaf stalk and cut it like it was a straw, with no effort! So if you don’t know… A banana leaf is big and has a large stalk – ok you got it now good.
This is the real Thailand I think you can really get to know what this country is like here. We hope we can show some pictures of the village so you can see what that is like. It is different looking from the cities in America but…if you look closely, it is really the same.
You couldn’t ask for a better place in the country to use as a base to explore some of the treasures that are around here.
Bangkok morning
The sun is almost ready to rise the morning we leave Bangkok. We are heading up to Dads place today and should be at his place in Non Song early evening. It has been a great visit to Bangkok the past few days. But now we are headed to the country and way away from the big city. Things in Non Song are at a totally different pace compared to Bangkok. Sometimes it seems as if time stands still – seemingly forever! Don’t get me wrong, it is a great place to relax and enjoy what REAL Thailand is all about. Just don’t expect to be entertained or have a long list of things to do like you have in Bangkok. It is what it is in rural Thailand.
Hope we can convey what it is like while we are there.
Bangkok at night
We have gotten a bit behind in bloging about this trip. We had some issues with our laptop and it has taken me a few days to get it back together and working. Happily we are a rockin’ now though.
This was the view our first night in Bangkok at the Lebau Hotel. I think we are going to put a review up soon so watch for that. What a great hotel and so attentive too.
So we are here now and can continue on with our checking out Bangkok again. We have been to most of the usual places on previous trips so we think this time we will check out more local color and activities sense we played tourists previously.
hotel review is here
Hope you will enjoy the blogs.
