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Meeting and Greeting
With this last day on my own I decided to visit the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre. Map in hand, I headed out for the Centre which my (un)trustworthy iPhone map told me was 1.2 kilometres from my hotel. I had stopped to check my map after a kilometre or so when a gentleman approached,…
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Walking and Learning
My first impression of Bangkok is that it is clean and modern and quiet – no smoke in the air, no honking of horns – in contrast to Delhi, though Bangkok is of course smaller. Its population is only 12 million compared to Delhi’s 30 million so one would quite naturally expect less congestion. I…
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Cruising and Noshing
About 15 feet from my very urban hotel is a small shrine. Someone or several someones have left offerings of fruit, flowers, incense and even a juice box, though this last could be garbage. After some research on the web, I still have not determined who the figure inside the shrine is supposed to be. …
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DD-1 – Sorting and Packing
Assembling the things I will take makes my trip more deliciously real. It seems I actually AM going to South East Asia. Yikes! What will I need? What will I want? What have I learned from last year’s tour of India? Take my own scrunchilicious down pillow. I’m not a great sleeper so a little…
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DD-2: Planning and Dreaming
Departure Day minus two! When you book a Road Scholar tour, they send you a list of essential and recommended reading. In anticipation of and preparation for my trip, I have spent the fall reading bits and pieces of the list and can recommend the following if you have an interest in learning about South…
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About Wat-ting Around Southeast Asia
South East Asia – Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam – has called out to me so I am taking a second Road Scholar tour, Journey into the Heart of Asia (http://www.roadscholar.org/). I will be travelling for three weeks and plan to keep this blog as current as wifi connections will allow. This time, I have…
