We spent the day catching boats as one would normally catch taxis, having decided on our last visit to Bangkok that the roads are useless & it much quicker & cheaper to boat everywhere the skytrain doesn't go.This was our third attempt at trying to visit the Forensic Museum, on our last 2 visits to Bangkok it has been closed, so finally we made it this time. We were not disappointed, appalling and gruesome, it held many parts of the human body in various states of damage as well as some complete corpses! Some of the most astonishing were from traffic accidents as well as unborn babies with two heads etc etc!! We were both surprised to find some people had brought their young children along to visit.
After having such good, healthy fun we headed to Chinatown to buy Kathryn a gold bracelet for Christmas. Unfortunately for Kathryn no-one seemed to want to take our money! They either said the shop was closed, or it was wholesale only or just ignored us all together, including leaning on the cabinets so we couldn't see....most strange. You go from being so hassled over a t-shirt or a $1 fare to no interest in selling you something that is actually worth some money....go figure....
We headed back to the hotel and then out for dinner - lovely garden restaurant, wonderful ambiance - shame about the food though, too westernised for our tastes, we've obviously been away for too long!
Off to another market to buy a suitcase to carry all our purchases home, we have quite a collection of carry on luggage now as we seem to do this every trip. Time to call it a day ..... flying home tomorrow!
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