This is the perfect place to visit after arriving in Bangkok. The 100 B tour is a bargain, if only because the canned 30 minute tour guide speech covers so much information about Thai culture and how it connects to the tiny details of Jim Thompson's life and the objects that inhabited it. Superstitions of note: Bring no broken objects into your home, it is bad luck; the foot high thresholds keep babies and money in and ghosts out (the houses are on the second floor since the first floor was reserved for flooding); doors are not lined up because ghosts can only travel in straight lines. The restaurant was expensive (well almost Canadian prices) but wonderful and the food very tasty; service was in English.
We shop for electronics at
Pantip Plaza, headsets, SD memory 8 GB for 360 B, a new cover for my Iphone 4 80 B, an LED "hockey puck light" 100 B, a USB power adapter for the phone 100 B.
We are stuck in rush hour trains that are quite packed, again. Everyone is very civil. Not a honking horn, not an ambulance, such a dense city.
