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Bangkok
Is an oasis of peaceful calm, wealth and cleanliness. Perhaps a mite hectic at times, and steam-bath weather even at 0600, but relaxation itself compared to Delhi.
I admired the strange-looking sunrise for several minutes before realising that the difference from India is ... clouds. Several layers of them, excessively attractively arranged. It even rains - torrentially, but only for an hour or so.
Today I have mostly been buying tailor-made clothes; two cashmere-wool suits (one black, one dark-blue pinstripe), two cotton and one silk shirt, and three silk brocade waistcoats in different colours. Prices are about the same as the medium-range off-the-peg at M&S, and the range of silk brocades is very significantly wider.
The cushion covers here are 1/6 of the Indian price, which suggests that my estimates about how much mark-up the Indian emporia were adding were very low. Or that the production's mechanised here and the Indian shops were charging a handwork mark-up.
Google's wonderful; arriving with no guidebook, a Netcafe and 'things to do in Bangkok' got me at once to http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Thailand/Central_Eastern_Thailand/Bangkok-1445238/TravelGuide-Bangkok.html and has given me three pages of sights to see. I'd also like to thank Kilda from the Exodus trip to India for her list of things to do; if you're reading this, Kilda, why not leave a comment? :)
I admired the strange-looking sunrise for several minutes before realising that the difference from India is ... clouds. Several layers of them, excessively attractively arranged. It even rains - torrentially, but only for an hour or so.
Today I have mostly been buying tailor-made clothes; two cashmere-wool suits (one black, one dark-blue pinstripe), two cotton and one silk shirt, and three silk brocade waistcoats in different colours. Prices are about the same as the medium-range off-the-peg at M&S, and the range of silk brocades is very significantly wider.
The cushion covers here are 1/6 of the Indian price, which suggests that my estimates about how much mark-up the Indian emporia were adding were very low. Or that the production's mechanised here and the Indian shops were charging a handwork mark-up.
Google's wonderful; arriving with no guidebook, a Netcafe and 'things to do in Bangkok' got me at once to http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Thailand/Central_Eastern_Thailand/Bangkok-1445238/TravelGuide-Bangkok.html and has given me three pages of sights to see. I'd also like to thank Kilda from the Exodus trip to India for her list of things to do; if you're reading this, Kilda, why not leave a comment? :)
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Mmm, brocade waistcoats.
Zorinth, whose taste in suits is impeccable, says don't buy yellow, it isn't your colour.
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(Anonymous) - 2005-11-15 13:43 (UTC) - Expandno subject
hi
(Anonymous) 2005-11-15 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)Ben
Re: hi
(Anonymous) - 2005-11-15 13:42 (UTC) - ExpandBangkok
(Anonymous) 2005-11-28 10:40 am (UTC)(link)Take care you, enjoy the sunshine too - its snowing here in Snowdonia (appropriately!)
Kilda x