Nana Plaza Open

The revolution will not interfere with the selling of flesh. Reports of a curfew are false. Bangkok's go-go bars are open and the beer drinkers are flocking to their haunts armed with the awareness that once there was many and now they are few. The US and UK embassies have issued warning for their citizens to avoid Bangkok at all costs. The internet has announced the imminent closing of Nana Plaza. The Old Roue is on top of the scene and reports the following.

"I just got on my motorbike and went to Nana to see if it was true that "troops have sealed off Nana".

NOT TRUE. The boys are all drinking at Chequers, the whores are preparing to whore at Nana Plaza, all's well with the world.

The story happened because there are a sort of bit of string across Sukhumvit at the corner of 4 by the gas station, basically as a warning not to go any further, for people driving into the area, because 3 blocks farther along, there really is a barrier - the big one that's been there for days, under the freeway. It's just to warn drivers they'll have to turn around and come back. You can still get to Soi 2 and even to Soi Zero - but you'd be unwise to drive to the end of it because that's where they're burning tyres on Rama 4.

The Marriott is open and Soi 2 is fine. Nick is laughing it off at the bar. There's a sprinkling of armed police along the Soi 6 side of Sukhumvit and the handful of M-16 armed marines are still loitering outside the Plaza - probably looking for freebies.

Sure. Rots o' ruck, as my Fillipina maid used to say in New York.

Thanks for that news. I'm staying down here in Pattaya, for my mother used to tell me that if you see trouble go the other way. It took me a long time to obey her, but better late than never.