One advantage of being on the road is the constant possibility of ending up in places you would never end up in normally. In this case I decided to check in to the faded Niagara hotel in some Soi of Silom road in Bangkok. The place reeked of the old days when kids would still get whacked on the fingers in school and men still wore hats on sunday. All in all this place was charming enough for me to stay exactly one night, enough to have seen it and lived it a little, but I can imagine the effect such a place has on the people that decide to stay there long term... One would pick up smoking just to feel more in place with the decorum.