Thread: The Siege for Bangkok. The long walk home.

Heaps of kids out on the streets.

Ok I'm off down the park to check it out again, finish this later.

Nice one Terry. Good pics along with your unique commentary - fooking good innit.

Originally Posted by terry57

The park has two out door gym's. 20 Baht a day or 200 baht a month. All old gear but it all works, this is the smaller of the two. A tosser runs it, don't go here head up to the bigger one.

The plush in-door air-conditioned gym is only 40bt a year Terry (no need to pay for the gym every time you go). Heads-up though, they're touchy about having clean shoes and a towel for the gym. Tennis courts 40bt an hour too.

Incidentally, the protesters have left all the Sukumvit junctions. Not a spec of rubbish and traffic back to normal (shit)

Interesting veggie arrangement.

Brilliant thread Terry. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

The plush in-door air-conditioned gym is only 40bt a year Terry (no need to pay for the gym every time you go). Tennis courts 40bt an hour too.

Yes, I checked that place out. Not my scene, full of tossers looking into a mirror in an Aircon space.

The price is a bargain for sure but I'd much rather pay 200 Baht a month and work out under the trees with the real people.

No pretentious tossers there Albert.

I've just returned from Lumpini park, the protest sight is extinct at Silom. Every thing has been moved to the park, it is a massive set up with all the infrastructure from the past protest sights now set up in Lumpini park. Things are back to normal at Silom like it had never happened. Incredible really. Anyway this is now history, I'm glad I photographed it all. The last of the protesters and their set up at Silom Saturday arvo.

All that remains today is that sign on the overpass.

Anyway the parties over for me, all I need to do is walk 10 minutes down Silom road and I'm home. Easier said than done with all the things going on around these streets. Maybe some squid will be good.

Leaving the zone and continuing on down silom road.

Exit the security zone and carry on.

Enter into Sala Daeng, follow those girls EH.

Pass O'Brien's Irish Pub. They do Dark Beer Lao here for 120 baht.

From O'Brien's I'm maybe 5 minutes from my front door, Jesus what a mad day.Keep walking that way, nearly there.

In Thailand there is never any reason to sleep on an empty stomach. I've punched out many kilometers today in an hangover affected state so I'm banging down this lovely plate of Chicken soup and hitting the sack. Hope you enjoyed the tour. Cheers.
Next thread will be about whats going down in Lumpini park. That's another story. Its huge.

An excellent walking tour, Terry. I think you live very close to where I used to live. A great wander down a lot of streets I used to stroll. Thanks.

Enjoyable,also nice to recognise some of the locations.

Excellent thread Terry, paints a nice portrait of a place and time.

Really enjoyed seeing all the photos of the aftermath of the protests - all the posters, banners, graffiti, phallic vegetables etc etc which you don't generally get to see in news footage/photos.

Originally Posted by terry57

The protesters are provided with free water.

Boycott water!

Originally Posted by terry57

Also free food.

Holy cow- I wonder how many Israeli backpackers have set up camp there.

Thanks for all the great pictures. I was in Bangkok back in January and went for a walk down by Siam square it was so bizarre to see all the roads closed down and all the shops closed at 5 in the evening.

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

Originally Posted by terry57

The park has two out door gym's. 20 Baht a day or 200 baht a month. All old gear but it all works, this is the smaller of the two. A tosser runs it, don't go here head up to the bigger one.

The plush in-door air-conditioned gym is only 40bt a year Terry (no need to pay for the gym every time you go). Heads-up though, they're touchy about having clean shoes and a towel for the gym. Tennis courts 40bt an hour too.

Incidentally, the protesters have left all the Sukumvit junctions. Not a spec of rubbish and traffic back to normal (shit)

The plush indoor AC gym is now a dormitory for about 40 PDRC supporters much to the chagrin of regular badminton players. Much unhappiness too with regular jiggers and park lovers. Will take months to just rehabilitate the greeneries and I guess everything.

^

When the protests kicked off the original Crowd kept the environment clean In lumpini and it was not a problem.

Now with the huge amount of people in the park its turning into a proper mess with all the rubbish being strew around.

Real shame that.

^ Thanks Terry for this thread, it's very enlightening. I recognized some places too. A pity about Lumphini park, getting trashed like that...

Great thread, Terry. That overturned van is something else. Brings back memories of my time in BKK over the years.