FRIDAY posted MONDAY
We landed
and found a taxi and followed the traffic jams into the city.
It appears that
Friday night is as bad as the traffic gets. We were waiting at one set of
lights for seven minutes. Two hours later we were poured out of the cab into
the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Hotel. Back in civilisation but not
feeling very civil.
The
Metropolitan is a zen-like establishment, everything ordered and in its place
and there is little to distract. Everything is brown or the colour of stone.
On a
Saturday many of the guests had a off-duty yet still polished look, here for the
weekend, the gym and the pool with someone else paying and determined to make
the most of it.
In the morning I attended to work-related email and began this piece.
In the afternoon we wandered out of the hotel
and wandered aimlessly down Patpong Street and Silom Road and decided we really
did not like Bangkok much, except that it was a good gateway to the rest
of Asia, the great stepping off point.
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