Floating market day

I'm walking to the floating market that is the closest, it's a walk through a big city but I've never been here and it's fascinating to see how the Thai live. By picking random routes you end up in random places such as a locals food market without any tourists. It's the real thing, the supposedly floating market is actually built on concrete piers. This is even true for the second floating market that I visit with three others who I hook up with to share the boat price. They are German, Dutch and French. This is a great ride on one of those classic Thai canal boats. We part, they take a taxi for speed, I take another boat. An hour later I run into them again on the ferry and I tell them what they missed. The boat sat and waited for 15 minutes, we rode for 30 and had a temple stop for 5 minutes on the way so we all got off. I got back in 3 but the boat was gone. The other pax show up, we all wait, after 10 minutes they ask, is he coming back? Then they all how much did you pay? 600 bath a German couple, 500 say the Polish group and then they look at me. I say I got the senior discount, because I know I paid 200 regular and they got had. We all got ditched by the boat driver so we end up walking the rest. My new friends couldn't believe they escaped that.Read more