We are in full on vacation mode now – with most of the must see things crossed off our list already (or completed on previous visits) there is no rush to try and complete 100 activities in 10 days 🙂

Now that we have moved to a hotel that has beds that were made after the stone age and contain actual springs and padding in the mattress vs the sheet of 3/4″ plywood that I think we were sleeping on at the last place, we are able to get a decent sleep, and given no fixed schedule are able to sleep in a bit in the morning while catching up with the world back home a bit.

Our days are usually a standard routine of walking around some part of the city for a while, followed by dinner and a massage – altho not always in that order, because you like to mix it up a bit!

Yesterday we walked down along the river for a bit, and then circled back through the Warorot market – this is one of the local markets in the city (likely the biggest) and is where the local people would come to buy clothing, fresh food items, etc.  It is gigantic, but all packed into a few square city blocks, so little shops and market stalls a couple of meters wide packed together.  Basically complete chaos if you ask me, but in the Thai fashion it seems to work very efficiently.

We will be going to the Saturday and Sunday night markets this weekend which are basically where they close off sections of the old city for blocks and blocks and let merchants set up little ‘stalls’ to sell their goods.  Much of the stuff is handmade and it attracts locals and tourists so it is mostly not the typical ‘tourist’ junk that is for sale, but actual things you might buy and keep.  Along with the goods there is of course a great variety of street food so I think our dinner plans for the next few days are set 🙂