Bangkok Blogger|Tales from Thailand

As it looks like the red shirt protest in Bangkok is coming to end thanks to a strong military crack down this weekend I thought it would be interesting to hear from people how the protests have affected them.

Me personally I have not really been affected that much at all.  I have had a few close encounters with armed police and military that I probably would not have done otherwise  but apart from that it has been business as usual.

A few times taxis have been hard to find that are willing to go into certain areas but overall it has been ok.

How have you been affected during the past few months of protestation?

Tomorrow is supposed to be the big day when the pro-Thaksin red shirts descend on Bangkok to protest.

Rumours are flying around from the believable (50,000 will arrive) to the slightly more wild (snipers and looting at Central World).   I’ll probably be staying in and watching it on TV if they haven’t shut down all the local TV stations as reported by some newspapers.

Fingers crossed it all goes off peacefully.

Just spied a group of red shirts down by Silom on my way home just now.  I seem to recall reading they are protesting at the branch of Bangkok Bank down there.

The road was cordoned off and there were a few police there on motorcycles so I couldn’t get close enough to see how many of them there were.

Lets hope it doesn’t turn nasty!