Khao San Road

Saturday night
Khao San road, also known as Backpacker Road is a couple of kilometers of restaurants, bars and street vendors filled with thousands of tourists.
We stopped a a stall selling fried insects (crickets, grasshoppers and caterpillers) . Wanted to try them but not before dinner.
Walked along the rod for a while, looked at all kinds of street merchandise, pipes, toys knicknacks and gewgaws. Lots of street stalls offering Thai massage too. Apparently a more brutal form of massage. We made Ralph try out a tank full of little fish that are supposed to exfoliate your skin by biting off the dead bits. Brian an icthyologist at the museum wanted one of us to try them out. None of us were too enthusiastic about putting our feet into a tank filled with other tourists dirty feet, but at the insistence of the manager Ralph stuck his hand in for a few minutes. Apparently his skin didn't taste very good, all the fish ran swam away from him.
We stopped in a restaurant for grilled red snapper, hot Thai chicken soup with noodles and quarts of Chang beer.  After dinner we walked down the road for a bit and sat outside Bangkoks only blues club listening to areally great version of Peter Gunn.