We continued walking around the area east of the Strand, heading gradually up to our hotel, past hundreds of vendors of second hand books.  Most were very old of course, many were ancient text books and work books.  After 30 or 40 minutes of this the sun got hotter and we decided a cold drink – preferably a cold beer – was in order.  Of course this didn’t prove easy to find, as we were surrounded by tea shops, but eventually someone pointed us in the direction of a ‘bottle shop’ where we could buy a cold beer and stand in the somewhat cooler shop.  No seats, but an interesting situation, and this time the vendor took our picture. 

After a cool shower we were ready for lunch, and took a taxi to Theik Di Shin, Anawrahta St, recommended in a Chowhound list. It’s air conditioned, and much more elegant than Feel, food better, although the author of the Chowhound recommendations said it was the best food they had in Myanmar.  We hoped that it wouldn’t be, as we weren’t that impressed.  Again we were probably the only tourists, although it is apparently frequented by private guides and their customers.   They kindly called our taxi to come and take us back to the hotel.  Time for another nap.

We had thought about going out again, but travel fatigue caught up with us, and so we relaxed, and went down to the bar again for a drink