Whilst Walking Towards Walking Street,

on Saturday evening, we noticed some super sized lychee that we both like, after looking at the market at the school end of Pattaya Tai (south) and not finding any, today we decided to try Soi Bukaow market, the main problem being the traffic, baht buses queue up just inside Soi Bukoaw itself, so the queue of stationary buses goes along the soi and then stops traffic from turning into Soi Bakaow from the main road, too many baht buses, not enough passengers,

but as we were on foot it was no great problem for us, lots of vegetables on offer,

peppers and limes to add to the culinary mix,

but we went our separate ways, I had a look at the fish shops,

there are two actual shops that are there all of the week, with one temporary one that shows up just for the Tuesday/Friday market,

plus a few plant stalls,

but not finding anything interesting I made my way to the coffee shop, S & P, but on the way I noticed this sports model, someone has spent a lot of money and TLC on it, not quiet my taste but nice neither the less,

I waited for Diana and ordered an ice coffee, you may remember the reason I went there is that last Wednesday the coffee was 50 baht as opposed to 125 baht in Starbucks, but of course I forgot today was market day, 165 baht including tax for 2! trouble is we will not be caught out again, no coffee at S & P on market days for us, especially when it is only 45 baht in the market, then the bad news, no super sized lychee to be found in the market so home for us,

in the late afternoon feet up for The Legend of 1900, shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet, the shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition, then hears the story of a piano player that has never left the ship in his life,

another film we have watched and enjoyed before, The Fifth Element, two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil, only the fifth element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years, but what or who is The Fifth Element?

then, Gulliver's Travels, as some one once said, the book that everyone knows the story of, but is most probable the most unread book featuring a popular story, well we all know about the little enders, the Lilliputians from Lilliput, but what about the others, what was the was the name of the country the big enders lived in?

to round off the evening three more from Black Books each one better than the last, tonight Manny Come Home, Elephants and Hens and finally for this evening, Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa but before we go to bed in case you did not know the big enders who were separated from Lilliput by a 800 yard wide channel, were from Blefuscu, both satirical portraits of the United Kingdom and France as was in the early 18th century, also in the story the the Big-Endian/Little-Endian controversy reflects, in a much simplified form, British quarrels over religion, England had been, less than 200 years previously, a Catholic (Big-Endian) country; but a series of reforms beginning in the 1530s under King Henry VIII (ruled 1509-1547), Edward VI (1547–1553), and Queen Elizabeth 1 (1558–1603) had converted most of the country to Protestantism (Little-Endianism), but for us we were off to bed.