Nakhon Pathom

It was Sunday before the New Year and Mother wanted to go to the Wat Sawang Arom temple to buy her lottery tickets. I am led to believe this is good luck when you go here.

We were on our way home from the Chim Shop Chai shopping trip and noticed another village estate holding offering new houses at a reasonable price so we dropped in to take a look.

Chanya found a new housing estate close to where we live so we take a short drive out there to check it out.

It's the Buddhist Lent holiday so we take a drive west of the big smoke to a Temple with a unique effigy.

One of the positives of the Songkran holidays is that the roads in Bangkok are free of traffic jams because most people leave the city to visit family in rural areas. I am certainly not complaining, but as it’s a holiday, I’m also taking the day off as the designated chauffeur! We first make our way out to Wat Wat …