Glen, Kieran, Laura and Martin left yesterday evening for an island resort where they will take an accredited diving course before joining us in a few days at the beach. They were travelling on an overnight bus then a ferry before getting to their destination.
Spent most of the day walking a few Temples (Wats), finding the floods and buying new sandals as one of the straps has broken on my new pair.
The floods are worst at sunrise and therefore in most of the city that we are in (west bank of the river) it is almost completely cleared by mid morning with only the riverside streets still affected and being pumped out. So far all the streets near the hotel have not been affected although the shop are taking precautions with sand bags and temporary walls. Bottled water is short in some stores, but can easily be obtained a few streets away.
China Town was intense and very busy (as with all China Towns) and as I did not need (at that stage) to buy anything I did not spend too much time there.
On the way back to the hotel I went through numerous flower sellers and then along some partially flooded streets. I bought a new pair of sandals from one of the shops in a street near the river which had been flooded earlier in the morning, but was now pumped dry.
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