Well, I hope no one took my advice and immediately went off to Thailand, especially if you were from Europe or came from the U.S. eastward connecting through Europe. The demonstrations got worse than I thought they would. Originally I was reading how they were taking over the Sukumvit area, where Sue and I used to stay. Now I see they are at the Silom road area, around the Saladang skytrain station. That’s were we stay now when we are in Bangkok. I also noticed that the demonstrations were close (although not in) the Khaosan road area where a lot of the backpacking crowd stays.
They are certainly not everywhere in Bangkok, the city is just too big for that, but they have hit a lot of the tourist areas where Farangs will at least be passing through, if not staying. If we were going to Bangkok now, the only thing we would do different is not stay in the Silom area. We’d probably stay out by the airport or just catch a bus immediately to Nang Rong.
Now along with that we have the airline disruption in Europe which stuck a lot of long distance fliers wherever they happened to be. Some of these were in Thailand. They could not get out of the airport, but did not want to go back downtown where they had been staying either.
As far as loss of life and limb, I am still of the opinion that there is little to fear. I suppose you could get blown up by one of those bombs that were planted, but the likelihood of that is still very slim. Now, as well as any other time, the most likely cause of you getting hurt is a car/vehicle accident. The chance of you catching a bomb or a terrorist bullet is vanishingly small compared to that, provided you stay away from trouble wherever you see it.
Being severely inconvenienced by this current air travel mess appears more likely, however.
