Ko Kret

Today was Mother’s Day in Thailand, so it is was a National Holiday for everyone; it is the day you don’t drink, smoke or attempt any other vice for the sake of your Mother. Yeah right! My Mum knows me and would expect very little from me in that way.
Nuch and I decided to go to the northern edge of Bangkok to a small Island in the main river “Chay Phao”. The Island is called Ko Kret; apparently it was inhabited 300 years ago by migrating Burmese fleeing an evil Dictator. (Nothing new there, look at Burma today). It’s about a mile square and is famous for its terracotta pots, and boy do they do pots. You have to take a ferry across the river, for a huge cost 3p. Once there, there are loads of terracotta stands, also stands selling Thai Desserts, before some of you get excited! We aren’t talking bread & butter pudding or Meringues. No, all of the desserts feature egg yolk, syrup water and cooked in hot syrup water, there OK, but not my cup of Tea. Talking of Tea, we ordered two coffees, ice coffee for Nuch and a normal coffee for me, we then had to pick a terracotta bowl to have the coffee put in, we got to keep the pots and all this for 27p each had this together with some lovely, spicy fishcakey things for 15p and we had a cheap lunch.
We walked round the Island, took about one hour, this was quite a wild side of Bangkok, not like the wild west, but more like the Jungle, I saw snakes, big fish and loads of different fruits growing wild, stuff like bananas, papaya and coconuts. The wild flowers would cost a fortune at any specialist grower in the UK. I was going mental when ever I saw something new, convincing Nuch that a few screws short.
Some of the Temples were well cool as usual; one of the Golden Buddha’s was just so what you would expect in a Temple. Again should you ever be in Bangkok, keep a day free to visit Ko Kret, it’s a real slice of normal Thai life.
The only thing to be careful of are the Soi Dogs!, I have never seen such a bunch of knackered, mangy dogs in my life and the one in the picture is quite the ugliest dog I’ve ever seen, more like a pig than a dog.