Travelling alone may get lonely, but selfishness is a hard habit to break. When I was in Malaysia recently I felt immediately comfortable with making my own decisions regarding where to go, where, when and what to eat and when it was time to leave. But here in Bangkok I was travelling with someone who had completely different interests to me, so I just went with the flow. I travel for food, but eating is ho-hum for mum. So we compromised, we did a little site-seeing interspersed with food.

Visiting the amulet market was high on her list. So we visited and I enjoyed it too. Beautiful scenes; an intent monk squinting into a loupe examining an amulet, passers-by dropping coins into begging tins, table after table of talismans that I don’t understand.

And there was food, thai iced coffee and a boatride followed by a swim and falling asleep by the pool (only to be woken by the thump of my book hitting the deck). Hello holiday.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 1:55 am and is filed under Bangkok, Thailand.