I Had Just Started Our Last Packet Of Fish Food,

so on a whim we decided to go the the aquatic market in Bangkok,

 firstly let me say I get totally lost in Bangkok,

 but we always arrive at the market on the same road,

 but one thing I do know is that you do not take this off ramp to Kamphaeng Phet Road,

 you take this one to Kamphaeng Phet 2 Road,

 as you near the off ramp there is at the moment a huge amount of engineering taking place on the left hand side,

 and down the ramp we go, at the bottom turn left and follow the road,

 till you see JJ Mart on the left,

 and join the queue for the car park at Chatuchak market which is normally a weekend market but the pet section is open every day, although a lot of shops do close on Mondays,

 we parked on the fourth floor looking down a new part of JJ is on the left,

 the JJ store itself is huge,

 and as a plus has a KFC,

 breakfast is served,

 there is one aquatic outlet in the store, but most stalls are for clothes and other household items and souvenirs, but it would take hours to look around every stall which would be a trip in its self,

 I forgot to mention there is a Dairy Queen there as well,

 ice cream in hand,

 and we were off shopping,

 aquatic stores every where,

 for aquascapers an almost endless supply of different pieces of wood to enhance your aquarium,

 there are of course lots of shops that sell dry goods,

 like this one where we bought our fish food,

 one of the many small shrines in the market,

 there are also lots of mobile stalls,

 like this one selling pomegranates,

 many shops come here to buy fish to resale, so there are bought by the job lot prebaged, with 10, 25 or 50 fish in a bag depending on the fishes size,

 plastic plants,

 we stopped at many shops to have a look and bought a few fish at this one,

 we made our way through some of the other sections, like this one,

 that sells split bamboo cages for singing birds,

 we then bumped into Diana's friend,

 the loose goose, that was helping itself to some shop owners wares,

 till it was chased off,

 we then spotted that there were two more goose on the loose,

 who were preening themselves,

 taking flying lessons,

 coming back again,

 to say hello,

 then off again,

 we went back inside through the different walk ways,

 spotting some more bamboo cages on the way,

 there were food sellers there as well,

 plus so many shops selling accessories for pet owners,

 and dry goods aquatic outlets,

then one of my favourite wet shops, selling fish, All Fish Aquarium,

 sorely tempted as I was I did not buy anything, but the planted aquariums looked so nice,

 we decided to have a ice tea and coffee before continuing our walk,

 into the major bird section,

 that then led into an aisle that sold just Siamese fighting fish, (Betta splendens),

 there must have been 20 or so shops here with just one specie of fish,

 back to the birds,

 on both sides of the street,

 and past the goose,

 as we made our way past the market shrine,

and back to the car park,

 it is amazing how popular keeping a local singing bird out here is, I do not know the name of it but there are cages for keeping them everywhere,

 into JJ Mart to the 4th floor and home we go,

this is the food we buy for the fish, although a bit difficult to judge the size the bottle on the right holds about 150 grams of fish food, price here in Pattaya 160 baht a bottle, the plastic bag on the left weighing in at just over 900 grams is 60 baht a bag in the Bangkok fish market we have just visited, as we use a bag in less than a month, the savings are pretty obvious, I know there may be a quality issue, but the contents of both, protein, ash, fibre, etc, products are surprisingly similar, the best news is that the fish love the product in the plastic bag,

after our evening meal we settled down for some more episodes of Dracula, it is really getting so good, but as always it is difficult not to cheer on the hero, or is it villain? not quite close to the legend, but still great viewing, as the midnight hour approached we were off to bed.