Football - Charlton 4-3 Stockport

Catching up. Tuesday night's score from Charlton's Carling Cup game was 4-3. Reading the Charlton blogs there is plenty of excitement and goals at Charlton's ground, the Valley, this season. After leading 2-0 they fell behind to 2-3 before winning 4-3 against Stockport. Wish I was there.

More on Klong Song Hong

Yesterday was the usual busy Monday so no walk and no blog. Today a bit better as I had to drive the accountant over to Srinakarin Road and I carried on so as to pick up Klong Song Hong further south and walk back to where I left it on Sunday. (This was where the canal split and I had to go with the right, western klong.) See the map below.

It was a 2 kilometer walk down to the southern wall of the rubbish collection vehicle depot. I had seen the northern end on Sunday. There was a few hundred meters between the two points without a walkway. The picture below shows the end of this path.

On the right, east, of the klong were Bangkok Metropolitan Authority facilities around the Onnut landfill including the incinerator. Two of the three smoke stacks are visible below.

Klong Song Hong

Hadn't walked for the last two days so made up for it with a 7.7 km walk today. For the first time walked south of Onnut Road. For two sections of the walk I had to leave the klong as the pathway run out. By the time it ended I had totally lost any sense of direction and though I had reached another main road rather than looping back to Onnut. On the map below the walk is shown with the red dots and I started from the little tail heading to the east.

First went a short distance east on the large Klong Prawet Burirom and then south on a small klong called Song Hong. The pathway stopped a couple of hundred meters short of Onnut Road at a sharp dogleg in the klong, but there was an alley that took me up to Onnut Road. Usually I'm lucky as the pathways tend to go under main roads but this time I had get across Onnut which was busy even on a Sunday. Found an entrance by the bridge to get back onto the klong and headed south.

500 meters along the klong split with the path hugging the right hand klong. In between the two sections was a massive Bangkok council yard for their rubbish collection trucks. You can see this in the photo below. Looked like all the trucks were parked up on a Sunday afternoon. Just in front of the office building was 20 foot stack of rear axels and differentials so I guess they take a beating in normal use. Next time I will get a shot of these.

Followed this klong for about half an hour through fairly un-built on land with a few ponds open for Sunday anglers. When the path stopped there was another alley through a small community onto a lane that took me back to Onnut. Crossed back over Onnut and then turned right onto Pattanakarn Road where I could get back on Klong Prawet Burirom and then back home.

Unusual site on the big canal today was a large dead monitor lizard over a meter long. Seen a few dead dogs and some very large dead fish before but this was a first. Stunk a bit so didn't hang around.

Saturday was a good football day. My team Charlton played badly in the first 45 minutes and went into the break losing two-nil but came out in the second half to win three-two. Maybe things are getting better.

Finished Yesterday's Walk

Finished the un-walked section from yesterday. (The blue line on yesterday's map.) I started from the southern end and reached the large school in just over half an hour. This are has lots of klongs crossing the open land so many branches off the path I walked. Below is a picture of Klong Wang Yai which was going west from the klong I was on.

A lot of empty land either side of this klong. I don't really understand why land is so expensive in Bangkok when there is so much land undeveloped. In the UK there is a reason because of the regulations and Green Belt policy, but here there isn't this sort of reason.

Not much of interest on this walk. Some fairly rough and recent shacks on the canal side and not much that looked like old communities. There was a plastic Garfield in the water though.

Here is the school at the end of both today's and yesterday's walk.

New Klong

Drove out to the temple on the Ring Road and parked again. This time it was to follow the new klong I had seen heading southwest. Did this for half an hour and then came back to the car. I still do not have the names of either the klong by the temple or the new one going off it. I do have the name of the temple though, Wat Lat Bua Khao.


On the map the red dots show today's walk while the blue lines show what I need to walk to fill in a gap. Not much to say about the walk. Very rural except where I stopped was a giant school, must have thousands of kids. I will find out the name.

Walking in the Rain

Yesterday afternoon got caught in a good tropical squall. For half an hour it came down in buckets. More rain in bigger drops that I can ever remember in England. I stayed under a bridge for a while but then decided to walk a bit. The big difference to back home is the rain is not cold. Hoping my shoes will dry out some time today.

Added a "Favourite Authors" section on left. I think it's a bloggy thing to do. I was searching out an old book today and then trying to track the author's latest book via the net. Bit of waste as he hasn't published anything since 1989. This was Anthony Price. So I added Graham Greene and John le Carre, (sorry no accent), to Anthony Price.

Why these three? Well Graham Greene as being simply the best story-teller from the UK since the war. Le Carre as he seems like the natural successor to Greene and I'm enjoying his move to the left as he gets older. A bit like Tony Benn in politics. And Anthony Price because once picked up, I could never put a book of his down.

Strange as I have nothing in common with any of these guys. They were all public school boys and relatively well off.

Football - Stoke 2-1 Charlton

Lost on the late game on Saturday. Reports suggest we didn't play that bad. Hope not as one point from six isn't good. Andy Hunt, who played so well for Charlton, is asking for copies of old season highlight videos as his have deteriated in Belize. Good luck to him. His blog is at http://escribbler.blogspot.com/index.html