Bangkok - with the family.

We have been lucky in that my sister Julia and No. 1 niece Kate have joined us for a couple of weeks while we explore Thailand. This has been great in that four  of us rather than two which often makes things easier!!

Here's some pictures of our week in Bangkok. It's a large, great place of which we hardly scratched the surface. We started with a fair bit of admin as we have only a 14 day visa for Thailand - which needed extending. Queue a day standing in queues and filling in forms... Oh well.... Didn't take any pictures of that but here's some other nice ones:-

 This is the royal palace

 Wat Arun - across the river

 A Giant swing - aparently unused since the 1930's

 Detail on a golden pagoda

 A Golden pagoda

 We went to a pupett show - here's my sister with a puppet and it's handlers!

 Here's My sister advising the ferryboat captain on route selection! - a bargain at 30p a ticket.

 And here she is being a tourist!

 No 1 niece at Wat Arun

 And climbing down it!

 And at the puppet show

 These two are of the lantern festival where Thai's float lights down any available waterways to celebrate the end of the rainy season.

 A nice water lily - with insects!

 Liza & Kate at the royal palace.

 Liza & I at Wat Aurn

 Liza with a puppet & handlers!

 I Liked the photographer at work - monks are everywhere - they also have priority seating on tubes!

 Lovely detail on the royal palace

 Pink Elephants!!

 A reclining Buddha

 More Wats in Bangkok

 Skyline in Bangkok

 A Wat!

 The origin of the top hat me thinks!!

 Us all on top of Wat Arun

 Another view from the Wat Arun

 View from top of Wat!

More detail of Wats - we went to a few so here are the pictures!