- Todau, 29 november, eight of us - two Thais and six
farangs, met at the SWISSOTEL NAI LER to partake of luncheon, (for which advance reservations suggested.) -
SWISSOTEL NAI LERT,
- Address: 2, Wireless road,
Khet Pathum Wan,
BANGKOK;
- Nearest BTS. station: Ploen Chit,(E2.);
- Tel.: (02)-253 0123..
-- Lunch. is truly gargantuan, and being buffet-style, would satisfy most appetites; cost is just
353.Bh. nett.
-- Afterwards three of us visited the godess Tuptim's shrine. OMG. - what changes have taken place therein; it looks as though some Puritanical & uncultured oafs from the Ministry of Culture - led by some Mrs. Grundy type - have visited and have sanitised it: only a few & concrete offerings are in place, all of the wooden, carved & painted devotional gifts have been cast-aside in some higgledy-piggeldy fashion against a couple of trees: desecration - may the perpetrators become barren or sterile!
--- Afterwards three of us
farangs hailed some
five taxi-cabs. in succession to take us back to SILOM COMPLEX SHOPPING PLAZA, (where fares for further journeys are readily available.),. Two were prepared to do so but without using their meters; the rest were
not interested! But Wireless road, being the home of several embassies, is peopled with those for whom such matters as meterless taxis. would be of little account.
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