I set the alarm for 6:20AM to allow enough time to brew some coffee and tea and be ready for the kickoff of the Packers - 49ers Football team. William connects our laptop via an HDMI cable and I log in to Comcast so we can watch the game on Fox 32 Chicago. Too bad the Packers had such a terrible game. Maybe next year?
We relax after the game and discuss options for the day. We focus in on returning to the Old City and exploring it starting on the western side at Wat Phra Singh, known as the Gold Temple.
We relax after the game and discuss options for the day. We focus in on returning to the Old City and exploring it starting on the western side at Wat Phra Singh, known as the Gold Temple.
Then we turn east along Ratchadamnoen Road. We encounter wat after wat. This feels similar to the number of churches in Cuenca, Ecuador and number of mosques in Istanbul. If we walk a couple of blocks without a wat, all we need to do is to look up and we see the tops of stupa’s or temples a block to the north or south. An example is that we see the top of what looks like a rock formation peeking around treetops along our walk. I look down an ally that appears to open to an open space. We walk through the ally and find Wat Chedi Luang, built in the late 1300’s, a massive pagoda on the top of a tall rock formation.
Once we are wat’d out we stop at a restaurant for some Pad Thai. It’s between the hours of 2-5 pm and after William orders a small Chang beer I notice a sign saying it is against Thai law to sell alcohol during those hours. Our waiter returns with my Diet Coke and what he laughingly calls a cappuccino for William. Sure enough, it’s a beer in a tall take-away coffee cup.
In doing Google searches for restaurants we noticed an Irish pub a few blocks away. Since we’ve tried Irish pub’s in some major (and minor) cities on every continent except Antarctica, we want to give it a try. It turns out it is located within the Anusan Night Market. We walk through the market, observing the various eateries and products for sale. We will definitely be back.
The Irish pub is about average for the international pubs we’ve encountered. The food is decent and William is able to enjoy a pint of Kilkenny for 240 bhat ($8 US).
The Irish pub is about average for the international pubs we’ve encountered. The food is decent and William is able to enjoy a pint of Kilkenny for 240 bhat ($8 US).
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