Old Town Bangkok: Neilson Hays Library
I like libraries. Ever since I was young, it would be somewhere we went to each weekend, and thus started my love of books. At home we have so many books, we could start our own library. However, nowadays I seem to read a lot fewer books compared to my younger days. My reading is usually done on the internet or on my iPhone. I should really go back to books... Anyways, if you read a lot of books and don't want to have to buy them all, in Bangkok we have the Neilson Hays Library which has been around since 1869. Wow. 142 years. 142 years is a long time to have a building still standing in Bangkok. As most of our houses were built of wood, many buildings have been lost to fire and flooding. Neilson Hays Library , built of brick, still remains. I've driven past this library on Surawong road more times than I can remember, and every time I tell myself I have to go in and check it out. I finally did. Now I can cross it off my ...