So I took the photo below during a shower while wandering around the Wat Phra kaew in Bangkok. Like pretty much everyone else, when the rain started bucketing down, I ducked under the roof of one of the pavilions to wait out the rain.
Have you ever had that experience where you go somewhere hoping to get some good photos only to find the location a building site? That seems to happen to me all the time. The image below is of restoration work being performed on the Wat Phra Kaew, back in 1989. Rather than try to avoid the scaffolding, I was able to incorporate it in this image.
I snapped this image of part of the Grand Palace in Bangkok while racing up the Chao Phraya as a passenger in one of those long-tail boats. Later in the day I went back to the Wat Phra Kaew which is in the north-east corner of the Grand Palace complex and open to the public and I'll post some images from there in the coming days.
Every time I've seen the Chao Phraya River its been this muddy brown color owing to all the silt washing down from the hills to the north. The boat is a long-tail. It has all the appearance of an auto engine with a straight shaft output to the propeller mounted on gimbals on the transom.
For R&R from Brunei I'd often go to Thailand. The image below is the first of my Thailand collection, and it's of a department store, somewhere in Bangkok taken July 16, 1989. It was taken in the morning, not that I can remember the night before - after all, it was Bangkok.
So I've not been able to place this on Google Earth but it think it was somewhere off Jalan Labi which heads inland from Lumut. It's later in the afternoon and a storm is coming in from the south-east.