We Had A Few Things,

to do today,

 firstly one of our old external hard drives had stopped working, so we were off to Wattana Computers, which is opposite Foodland supermarket and Harbor, the new store in Pattaya Central,

 but what a trial getting across the oncoming traffic as we made our way up from Third Road, massive road works had reduced the downhill flow to just one and a half lanes, and no one was giving way to let us into the Wattana Computer car park, or indeed let any customer of the shop out, you just had to wait for the occasional and infrequent gap in the traffic,

 and looking at the other side of the road getting out of the Foodland or Harbor car park was even worse, still hopefully the road works in Pattaya Central will be gone in in a couple of days, I just can not imagine what it will be like if it drags on into high season!

 so into the store and bad news, the hard drive was examined whilst we waited, it was beyond repair and could not be read, the very helpful assistant said she could give me the telephone number of a shop in Bangkok that might be able to recover the information and pictures on it, but they charge a minimum of 10,000 baht even if they are not successful, well with my luck with electrical things it would cost me the 10,000 baht just to be told they could not do anything, so I declined the offer of taking the telephone number,

 next stop the Kodak shop to pick up the pictures that Diana wanted to be made, also whilst parked up we went across the road to the printers opposite, next to Friendship, to have some more cards with our blog site printed on it, the printers I used before were on the Sumkivitt Road, just past the entrance to the tunnel, but had for some reason closed up shop and did not leave any sign as to where they had moved to, which was a shame as the cards were printed on nice card and they had made a good job of them, hopefully the new printers will be as good, I will pick the cards up on Saturday,

 we stopped off at the rear of TukCom for an ice tea and coffee,

 and to pick up some fresh pineapples, 6 of them to snack on over the next few days,

 for our evening meal a change to my usual pumpernickel,

 we went to one of the open air food-courts,

 there is a central eating area,

 surrounded by carts selling different foods,

 and this was the one we wanted, selling sen lek gai, chicken soup,

 although it does not look it, the clouds promised a rain storm,

 but we had to wait our turn, but as luck would have it we arrived home safe and dry,

 our evening meal, straight out of the plastic bag,

and now mixed with some of the pepper paste that is included, delicious,

we then watched the last two episodes of Planet Earth II, absolutely stunning, one of the many things we like about each of the episodes is that as each one ends there is a diary, which takes a look at how some of the breath taking shots were produced, and the fantastical equipment used, 

and here is a preview of it, what a wonder this series truly is, with the end of that 3 more episodes of Suits and we were off to bed.