Like it or Lump it
Day 3 we decided to get away from the madness that is Bangkok and its crazy traffic, as we’ve seen quite a few temples, well a lot of temples, we decided to go to Lumphini park on the other side of town. So instead of breathing in the very poor air we decided to use the underground, which was air conditioned and had the extra security of a metal detector that you had to walk through to enter, which went off when everyone went through, and only the odd person got checked, so a token gesture deterrent. Speaking of tokens that’s exactly what you get from the ticket machine, which was easy to use once we changed the language to English, which really means American English and paid 19 baht each for a plastic disc that you scan at the barrier and later insert as you exit, the journey takes about 30 minutes so it was grab a seat if you can, and count down the stops. Finally we arrive and head outside to Lumphini park, an oasis in the middle of Bangkok’s finance district surrounded