With the aid of a map that I picked up at the airport and a one-day pass on the Sktrain I managed to view three studio flats, all in complexes with swimming pools, roughly on a N-S line between here and Siam Square. None of them were fantastic, but one or two would have done. It was very clear which market they were aimed at. For example, one of the better ones was obviously aimed at the fat farang and his Thai 'girlfriend'. It was a modest size but dominated by a huge bed!. To cool down I went for a ride to the end of the Skytrain line and back again. It is heavily refridgerated and you get a good view of the sprawl.
This afternoon, having seen what else is out there, I agreed to move into a big shared flat with an australian girl working for Greenpeace. The house consists of three self contained two bed flats in a nice garden down a quiet soi very near Phaya Thai station. The landlady lives with her aged mother in a bungalow next door. I move in on June 10th, the day before I set off for the projects.
I explored the neighbourhood a bit and ended up in IT City, three storeys of IT concessions jammed with Thais and a few farangs looking for bargains. It was semi-airconned so down to c 28 degrees but noisy as hell with a Thai woman screeching full blast over the PA all the time presumably about what great bargains were to be had. Luckily, lots of IT words are english, so I could communicate what I wanted in nouns even though I have no verbs. Bought a lime green MP3 player/recorder marked down, presumably because of its remarkably offensive colour. Will use it to record interviews when I go off to the villages on Friday.
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