3 Days in Bangkok and on the way to the 5th of December ;-)

So, it has been a good week since I last wrote into my weblog, but here we are again!

The last week I have spend 3 days in Bangkok, visiting my dutch freemasonlodge Erasmus. Its allways a great joy to pay them a visit simply because they are a great bunch of guys. Hospitable, liberal in allmost every sense of the word, and allways make me most welcome to participate. They are also a great help in discovering how to go about once way here in Thailand.
But ofcourse meeting them only took one day, the other 2 days I spend with Kik in Bangkok.
It had been quite a while since he, and I for that matter, visited Bangkok and to my surprise Bangkok was a village for him.....
In the quarter of Bangkok, where we stayed, Silom area, he seemed to know people in allmost every place we passed.
He had told me he used to work for Japanese in Bangkok and also showed them around Bangkok a lot....so the first day it ment for me a lot of waiting when he met again some person or persons he knew. And as soon as the word spread he arrived in Bangkok his phone seemed to keep ringing all the time..and Thai people call 24/7 I can asure you as much!

Being addicted to thai massage by now, I had a massage every day and have to admit, sometimes even two on one day, just to keep myself going, haha.
Its the Thai way of life which attracts me sofar but also their general attitude. Though I have to admit, also the Thai have their downside ofcourse. It can not all be sunshine, as one knows all too well! But sofar I still have to say that all in all Thaiand still holds a very big attraction to me, so I keep on looking for opportunities to organise a long stay here ;-)

The city of Bangkok was in preparation of the Kings birthday, who has his birthday on the 5th of december....in my country Holland also known as Sint Nicolaas day. But contrary to our Queensday, when all restaurants and bars are open and most retailshops closed, in THailand its the other way round, all retaishops are open and most restaurants and all the bars are closed. On the Kings Birthday its not allowed to poor alcohol !!

This leads to the general attitude that Thai celebrate the Kings birthday in their family surroundings, be it chosen or blood family.. for the tourists its an evening/day on which they have to think of other things to do then just drink and have fun, haha......for a lot of them thats rather difficult I noticed later ;-)

Okay, my next entry wil tell you some of what happened on Kings Day, if I may it call it that......