Andy's Asia - Life in the Village

We finished our official 14 days of strict quarantine yesterday!! Who anticipated a trip to the grocery store could be so exciting? We went a bit out of our village to the capitol of our province, Sa Kaeo. There is a store there much like Costco in the USA called Makro. One can buy in bulk or normal quantities like Costco. What fun! We spent probably at least an hour shopping for necessities and some nice to have but not totally necessary items. Since my last post about the wet market, we have traveled to Bangkok to pick my daughter, Pon, up from her university. We also needed to get to our house in a nearby suburb to assess the damage left by some nasty tenants who left suddenly. We also picked up some western things like tortillas, tortilla chips at the local quality grocery store near the house. Fortunately the main damage was to the wood floors, just ugly but not structural. They moved furniture around by dragging it rather than lifting. They also left the windows...

I have been a bit lazy since my last post! In fact, the last thing I posted was this set of pictures from the huge market on the Cambodian border. I had written quite a bit about various things but somehow I hit the wrong key and it was all lost. Despite using the save button which does nothing, it was all gone. Since then I’ve been looking at alternative blog software and haven’t found anything free, so I’m going to stick with this for now. The market is about 40 minutes from our house in the village, mostly south and little east. There are hundreds of vendors selling every fruit and vegetable that is in season. This is where local restaurants and street food vendors come very early in the morning to get their ingredients. There is also a poultry, meat and seafood section. For those of you not familiar with the term ‘wet market’, it essentially is a market that sells foods as opposed to ‘dry markets’ which sell fabric, clothes and other non-food items. My wife, P...