Ok, Then I found the Pantip Plaza which is a huge IT mall. Frankly this was a real dissapointment. The software for sale was boring (Apart from Windows 2006 which I would love to get my hands on). The music on sale was OK, but at B100, or $4 a CD it was not great value. Of course sometimes you could get the MP3’s for the same price. The going rate for DVD-R movies is B200, or $8 which is also not great. Everyone wanted me to buy their copied DVD software and music… Why would someone think that I would be interested on the fifth floor if I had not purchased anything from the floors below? And the collection of stuff is mostly all the same.

Then back to the hotel for a rest. A well needed one!

After a rest I went out again to Siam Square. I grabbed another photo showing the scale of the Sky Train…

I decided to check out the Hard Rock Cafe… This was good, but being by myself was a bit moring. The music was cool though, with Don McLean’s American Pie playing when I first went in there. I just grabbed a Creamin Soda. Delicious. Finding it was a bit hard – I managed to walk past it a few times without recognising it. I must have looked lost as a local asked where I was looking for and pointed me in the right general direction.

Near the Hard Rock Cafe in Siam Square there are a heap of free WiFi zones where you can use your PDA or Laptop and connect to the Internet. The one below is across the road from the Toyota Cafe.

Then I went and found ‘Flaming Moes’ which is a bar I heard of. I grabbed a Coke there, but let us just say that this was not the most happening place in the world. They call it ‘The Place Where Nobody Knows Your Name’, and I must say that I grabbed a drink only to say I had been there. The place was only slightly larger than my hotel room, and looked like it might be in the middle of an area I would describe as a red light district.

I am generally surprised at how few whites there are in the city, for a place that is so much of a tourism mecca… Anyway I had better get going.