Bangkok Pt 1

It's holiday time! We decided to take two months off work and bought tickets to Bangkok with the intention of drifting around South East Asia for two months with no real plan or any idea of what we are doing... which is pretty much exactly how we live our daily lives anyway (so no-one should really be surprised when they ask us what we want to do and are met with two blank stares and a vague shrug). We like to call it "going with the flow" as opposed to "heads firmly up our arses"

Voted 'Most Likely To Get Scammed 2017'

Plan: Arrive in Bangkok. Stay in hostel a few nights. Go to Chiang Mai. From here plan is non existent.

I'm happy to report that the first part of the trip was a success, only having to run for one train (the very FIRST ONE oh my god who knew it would be at the other end of the platform? Not us, that's for sure) and we got to BKK around 7am no problems. Walking out the front doors was like getting enclosed in a naked hug (nice, warm, comforting, and the longer it goes on for, the moister and and less comfortable it gets, until you have to peel your skin away and find fresh air before you murder someone).

We managed to get a taxi and only got scammed by an extra unnecessary 50 baht. Success!

Smug sitting by the rooftop pool pose

After crashing by the rooftop pool for a quick nap before we were able to check in (hello, immediate sunburn) we dumped our stuff and got a taxi to the nearest sky rail stop to get into the center of the city. Siam Square is just a mass of shopping malls and markets and we kind of just wondered around and picked up a few things.


After a few bad directions we eventually managed to find a massive night market (Near the Thailand Cultural Center stop on the underground) where we had our first hot thai food experience: a salad that looked great until I ate a massive bite of it, immediately started hiccoughing and knocked over my own drink. Babs laughed at me, tried it, then immediately started crying and sweating. Vindicated!

So then we gave up on the shopping, hit the most appropriate looking bar....

IT'S A SIGN

Drinking Responsably? Responsibley? Can't even spell it let alone DO it

...And promptly drank too much. Standard.

Thus ended our first day in Thailand.

(I'll update this a bit better later, I'm sitting in a mozzie feeding frenzy I need to leave before I set everything on fire)