...the day after

We had a proper lie in on New Year's Day since we didn't get to bed until 4 the night before. We went for beakfast in Lumpini park, bringing Coffey and sandwiches.
And we were not disappointed this time either. First we saw some very straight backed birds we've never seen before and soon the first dragon showed, walking lazily a few feet in front of our bench. All of a sudden I see him stopping, looking intently up in to a tree, I look the same way and see a squirrel jumping around. BAM the dragon climbs the tree like he is Spider-Man (didn't know they could
climb like that!)
Unfortunately for him but fortunately for the squirrel the later got away so the dragon decided to pretend he just went up the tree to have a rest on a branch.
A few minutes later an even larger dragon comes swimming, hungry eyes on the doves, but he has no luck either.

After the adventures in Lumpini we thought we should try some proper touristy stuff so we went to Jim Thompson's house. He was a former CIA agent who fell in love with Thailand, started a silk business but mysteriously disappeared at the age of 61, to never be heard from again. He built a magnificent house in Thai style and we took a tour around and into it. This was the first time we saw a lot of western people. After the tour we had some food and for the first time I was disappointed, lesson: stay away from the tourist traps.

In the evening we went back to Asiantique
where we spent NYE to have a look in some of the 1500 little shops there.
We found so many beautiful things and brought some of them back with us.

On the 2nd of January we had an easy day and met up with Erik and Isa and 2 of their friends for drinks and some food, it was nice to meet them again after several years.

Today (the 3rd) we're now sitting on a minibus on our way to Koh Chang where we will spend our last week, will write more later!