Saturday December 2nd

First up today was more shopping, this time at the massive Chatuchak Market where weekends see a mass of sellers and buyers converge on an enormous area in the north of the city. It's a magnet for locals and tourists alike. Conveniently the Skytrain takes you right there and more importantly gets you away again with your purchases. We were able to complete the Xmas shopping duties and have a look at the range of goods on sale (pretty much anything you'd want) but we probably saw only about 20% of the place.

In the afternoon Tim took off for the Hash Run with Mike (it's a men only run on a Saturday, and old men at that!). We started down by a canal and the run took a great route around the canal system and through narrow residential streets. One done we stopped back to pick up Tracy and went to find Som before heading to a local restaurant for a Thai barbeque.


This consisted of a small dome shaped burner with a gutter around for broth and charcoals below for heat. You cook your seafood or meat on the burner and add greens to the broth for DIY soup... $2.50 for all you can eat and excellent. Beer came in a meter/yard high tower with space for ice in the center and a tap at the bottom. Sadly I did not have a camera to capture this great invention.