Complete luxury today – it’s so cold outside I’m sitting here in trousers and a jumper. According to the nearby weather station (Near Asoke/Soi Cowboy) it dropped to 18.3 Celsius early this morning. UB is reading minus 24 and smokey… Choice A or choice B?
Yesterday evening saw a large fire just down the street. I think it was in an area with detached residences and it must have destroyed at least a couple of properties so someone will not be having a very merry Christmas. It shut down the power to the block and fire-crews closed down the roads on either side, including a major N-S link road passing the Queen Sirikit conference center and Benjakiti Park up to Asoke BTS. The fire was close enough that at one point where we were gathering up ‘irreplaceables’ just in case the wind changed. Fortunately we are travelling light so we could fit cameras and some back-up hard-drives in a shoulder bag and disappear to dinner, narrowly avoiding being rundown by some moterbike-mounted fire-crews on the way.
About Me
- The Nomad
- Comming from the UK in the mid '90's The Nomad worked slowly through most of eastern europe and Turkey before venturing further afield to Mongolia in 2002. After five years, 30,000-odd km of 4x4 and 60-odd days in dodgy old helicopters he has seen the country from Olgii to Dornod and Huvsgul to Omnogov. Heartbroken to leave the stepp and the deserts (and his trusty landcruiser) The Nomad with wife and child in tow moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 2007. Currently his interests have ventured off-shore, searching for hydrothermal vents in the southwest Pacific - as different an environment to the Gobi as you could find on our planet.
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