Saturday, and feeling rather lethargic, so I settled down for a few hours with my book. I then went for lunch, wrote in my journal, read the Bamgkok Post and did the crossword. All whilst watching Popeye and Tom & Jerry cartoons that the bar owner had put on for his kid. Tom & Jerry is Timeless!

After a few hours in there I headed into the outer city to the night market. There are perhaps a dozen different types of stall, but there are hundreds of them. There were a few things I considered buying, mainly to send home. In the end I bought nothing.

I was gettin bored of the same, same market and so headed to a bar. I got talking to a group of people at the bar, the old aussie I talked politics (Oz elections, and becoming a Republic), the Brit I talked about why he was out here (drug problem!) and the babyfaced Canadian about Canada.

I headed to my 'local' and had a couple more beers (and a couple of crates of salted popcorn), got a few shots of the bargirls and headed for home.

Sunday, I got up and sat reading again. This book won't last long. I headed down to the Tha Pae gate. There was a market on there and all down a road running through the inner city, I had a stroll through it. This market differed alot from the night market, I think the local tribes people may come down for this one. I wasn't in a buying mood.

I went to a bar for a coke and they had the NRL Grand Final on and the place was full of Aussies. Fair enough it was rugby league, but it made a change from all the football. I got talking to an Aussie who lived in Bangkok and who was up in Chiang Mai to play cricket.

When the match finished (with the side I was rooting for loosing) I walked around the south of the inner city, there wasn't much there so I headed to a bar to update my journal. There was a German at the bar and he asked if I was writing in a secret code. My writings not that bad! But ten he mentioned my writing down the page. It's just how I write.

I headed back to the market, it was heaving with people now. Thais must only shop at night. It was a completely different experience, but I still didn't buy anything.

I hit a bar around the corner from my guesthouse for a final drink, it was empty. I noticed a sign saying they had ManU v Boro on a big screen upstairs so I headed up, it was packed. I watched the match, talking football and taking the piss out of the ManU fans with the rest of them. After watching ManU scrape a draw we all went into the other upstairs room to watch the second half of Chelsea v Liverpool. I didn't see much of it as I got talking to Tina, a girl who was travelling the other way round the world to me. She told me what she'd saw in Laos and Cambodia, I told her about a few of the places I'd seen in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I then escorted her home (not really, she was in the guesthouse next to mine).