Still in Bangkok. Met with Jeab at Starbucks. Some people hate Starbucks for all that it stands for. I think that it's a wonderful oasis from the stiffling pollution-filled heat of Bangkok streets! Here you can sit with a good cup of coffee for as long as you want, catch up with the latest western newspapers or just relax. :o)

Jeab took me to Wat Pathumwanaram, just off the material madness that is Siam Square. Surrounded on all sides by expensive shopping centres stocking the latest designer clothes, this temple complex is a quiet, leafy oasis of calm. Apparently it belongs to the King and therefore cannot be developed.