Khon Kaen

From Khon Kaen 2010

I am coming to the end of a long weekend staying in Khon Kaen with friends David and Anne, or more accurately, in a small village outside the city. Apparently the Khon Kaen Town Hall was burned down by the Red Shirts during the country-wide rioting last week, but no sign of that when I was in town on Saturday.

The village life here is all very slow paced, which is perhaps as well in view of the heat at this time of the year. Not much to do except watch the world go by over a Singha beer (which is brewed just down the road). The weekend highlight for most farangs is a trip to Home Space and Index, the Thai equivalent of Homebase or Ikea. You can tel the extent of the western influence in this part of Thailand by the roaring trade they do in electrical extension leads with square pin sockets!

Time now for the 6 hour coach journey back to Bangkok and then on to KL.