Off To Go Shopping,

amongst other things we needed some stewing beef for tomorrow evening,

 so Friendship was where we stopped,

 the car/bike park with its normal collection of motorcycles as it was not a market day,

 whilst Diana started shopping inside I made my way to TukCom along a very quiet Pattaya Tai,

  passing the now easy to see Soi Bukaow,

we meet up and made our way home, stopping first at the coffee stall for a take away ice tea and coffee,

after our evening meal and a few from one of the cop shows we settled down for this evenings film, titled Admiral Command and Conquer, we had watched it before but it was so good we decided to watch it again, here is what I wrote the first time we watched it, 'definitely one of the better period true life dramas, do not be put off by the Dutch only soundtrack, it has excellent English subtitles, the film follows the fortunes of Holland in the 1600s when a new admiral was given command of the Dutch fleet, at a time when France, Germany and England were snapping the countries heels and borders, both at sea and on land, he, Michiel de Ruyter led the opposition in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century, and became the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history, although his name might not be known by many, one of his deeds you may have heard about was when he famously sailed up the River Medway to Chatham to sink as many as 13 Royal Navy ships in 1667, and towing two, one the normal flagship of the English fleet, HMS Royal Charles, back to Holland, this daring act became known as the Raid on the Medway: The Worst Defeat of the British Navy in History, his full name, Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, because of it's lack of English soundtrack I nearly did not buy this film, but having seen it I am so glad I did, Diana who is not a fan of non English speaking films really enjoyed it too, it was that good' and with that we were off to bed.