Monday, after Wat Arun, further up along the Thonburi bank.
Bangkok’s elevated BTS Skytrain metro is a world-class public transport system that rivals anything we have in Britain.
The normal overground railway, isn’t.
This is Thonburi station, Bangkok’s second terminus. I think it’s rather more charming than the BTS.
One of the great attractions of Bangkok is seeing its breakneck modernisation sit next door to the ramshackle older world – sprawling clumps of achingly hip skyscrapers (there are lots of clumps) towering over faded shopfronts, Dickensian-dark workshops and corrugated shacks.
In the distance, not really a Bangkok-style clump, more of a freckle.
orwellianTwo 