No one enjoys a party time more than the Thais. They celebrate our Christmas, our New Year, their own New Year (in April) or just any reason to party. As usual there was a party in the hotel starting at 11.30 am and lasting all day. The staff had cooked all day and most of the night before and there were industrial size coolers of drinks and ice cream.
Christmas Dinner was spent at the lovely Chedi Hotel which used to be the British Embassy here. It is situated on the Ping river. About 14 of us went together and it was a most relaxing, slow, excellent 4 hours. Children from the Karen tribe sang for us and then a jazz combo played in the background the rest of the time.
New Years Eve was also at a really nice restaurant which is close to the main Tapae Gate on the Moat around the old city. The fireworks were going off in the grounds of the restaurant and at the Gate while others went off all over the background down on the river Ping while the Kom Loy balloons floated aloft and the very full moon smiled down on all of us as we sipped our bubbely and toasted all and sundry.
I hope all of this nice start is a symbol that our world may be less violent in this New Year and kinder 
to all the suffering people in it.Christmas Week http://picasaweb.google.com/a.roantree/ChristmasWeekCM09#
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