Chao Phraya River - Floating Market in Bangkok, Thailand

Back to husband Pieter's short stay in Bangkok, now with a visit to the Floating Market on the Chao Phraya River.

It is quite busy on the Chao Phraya River...

Wondering if their housing since 1980 has changed much?

Such a trip makes one always appreciate the comforts we all enjoy at home!

Sure, in this country you find lots of coconut!

There is not much space left in the boat, for a person to sit...

Pineapple...

Fresh veggies. 

Homes are rather open and will not protect much against the elements.

Bye bye Bangkok...

Bangkok city 1980... one final stroll.

Next day the journey continued on to Indonesia.

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Wat Arun - The Temple of Dawn in Bangkok, Thailand

Husband Pieter did spend two nights in Bangkok for some sight seeing for a couple of days, before traveling on to Indonesia.

This is the view of the over 70 meters high tower of Wat Arun, from the Chao Phraya River

Arrival on 18 July 1980 and departure on 20 July 1980...

Back then you were still allowed to climb the steep stairs!

Incredible mosaics

What a detail in all these corners and statues

A figure standing guard

Two guards in front of Ordination Hall of Grand Palace complex

A closeup of such a guard

In the back the roof from Ordination Hall is still visible

Buddha statues everywhere...

Walking again back towards Wat Arun with its four lower spires around, two you can clearly see here to the left.

On May 6, 1983 I've walked around at the Bangkok airport, coming with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from Amsterdam, Rome, Bahrain. Via Singapore to Jakarta for my first trip to that part of the world.

Hope you enjoyed these images!

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Already in 1963 Husband Pieter Mentioned Racism in Mushroom Growing

In the Dutch magazine CHAMPIGNONCULTUUR-1963-2 my husband Pieter published this:

Does Skin Color Determine the Value?

You see a White Agaricus bisporus point at a Brown Agaricus bisporus and making it look very SAD!

Racism in the Netherlands?

Does Skin Color Determine the Value?

Whites better than brown ones? Fortunately, we think this is an absurd idea in the Netherlands in general. Although...!! In our profession, mushroom cultivation, one knows the difference in skin color, the difference between white and brown, and strange enough, it is thought here that whites are better than brown ones. What is hidden under a brown mushroom skin is at least as good, if not better than under a white skin. A brown mushroom can certainly grow as easily as a white one, the yield is higher as a rule and because brown mushrooms get a little thicker in diameter, they require less picking-labor. The taste is at least as good and they are a bit more resistant to transport etc. than the white varieties.

Nevertheless, the trade generally values the brown ones less than fair skinned (in our case the white ones), although it is known that certain canning industries and soup manufacturers have sufficient processing options for brown varieties.
The fact that the Dutch housewife still believes that the whites are better than the browns, we can still understand that, often ignorance plays a role here. However, the manufacturing industry and trade may know that underneath that colored skin lies a product that has the same or better properties than anything traded with white skin.
It will be on this racial issue: a question of too little knowledge of the capacities present and a large dose of incomprehension and mistrust. So let those who can improve this, quickly convene a round table conference and find a solution to this.
Fortunately, there is little sense of racial discrimination in the Netherlands and Europe. That is why we hope that racial discrimination in mushroom cultivation will soon be a thing of the past.

P.J.V.

Pieter's bosses Drs. P. J. Bels and his wife Dr. H.C. Bels Koning were the editors for the magazine and they kind of abbreviated names. They made Pieter's P.J.C. Vedder into a shortened version...

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