Girl Meets Thailand: 5 Days in Bangkok
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Okay, quick recap of my last two weeks: My feet touched Dutch soil on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were for laundry, yoga and stuffing my face with my favorite non-Thai foods.
And then I walked back into my office on Monday and that was that.
Despite what some people on the Internet will have you believe about our terrible life choice of working 9 to 5 jobs, us minions-for-The-Man actually care about what we do and we actually do something.
So when I have the energy to blog? I have to work. And when I have the time to blog? I am tired.
Therefore, this blog post has been made possible by a variety of little time slots over the past weeks (10 minutes uploading pictures, 5 minutes writing the intro, 15 minutes trying to remember what the fuck I even did in Bangkok) and a blissful Sunday afternoon.
We spent 5 days in Bangkok in total. My vacation started and ended here. This is what happened, where we were, and what we did.
How?
As you know and love me: BULLET POINTS BITCHES.
- DAY 1: The first three nights we stayed at the Chillax Resort, which was quite close to Khoa Son road. Click the Booking.com website, not their actual website. We were very relieved to find it wasn’t actually a brothel.
- I was the kind of jet lagged where you’re so tired you find things that are only slightly humorous absolutely hysterical.
- I was also the kind of jet lagged where you want to sleep so badly in the afternoon but once it’s night you fuCKING CAN’T.
- After a nap, we went to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.
- Will wondered out loud if they got the little tiles at Home Depot. #shitmyboyfriendsaysinThailand
- It took us a while to get used to the temperature and humidity. As you can see I’m still in the adjustment period here.
- We had dinner on Khoa Son road. Because of a Buddhist holiday there was no alcohol, no hookers and no ladyboys. (We’d see those two days later.)
- DAY 2: The next day we took a tuk tuk, wandered around Sukhumvit for a while and went to Klong Toey Market, which is one of the biggest food markets in Bangkok.
- We had dinner at Rooftop Bar Nest, a bunch of drinks at Sukhumvit road and (an attempt at) a bucket at Khoa Son Road. I refused to drink the bucket. After this monstrosity and the monstrous hangover, I am never going there again.
- DAY 3: We slept in because jetlag and because Will watched the World Cup finals which started at 3 AM here.
- We then had breakfast at Wunderbar, across from our hotel. Their pineapple-lemon-coconut concoction was AMAZING.
- We wandered around in Bangkok and went for a drink at the Vertigo Moon Bar. Which was awesome, and terrifying.
- It become more terrifying when it started to rain and we saw lightning.
- We had a final walk around on Kao Son Road, a final cup of tea at Wunderbar and then went to bed. We flew to Chiang Mai the next day.
- Because we enjoyed Bangkok so much we decided to spend 2 whole days there before going back home. After the tranquility of the islands we had been one, we were excited to go back to smelly, busy Bangkok. We took the night train there, and this time we were staying in VX The Fifty, a hostel near On Nut Station. Great hostel, but I preferred the location of Chillax: More downtown.
- DAY 4: We took a boat tour around the river, went to see Wat Arun and I bought souvenirs from someone in a long tail boat, because why not.
- The on-off button on Will’s phone was broken so he decided to get it fixed in an IT Centre in Bangkok. After our boat toad, we found one in a big ass shopping mall: 7 floors, filled with stores and people ushering you towards them.
- The repairing took a while so we first spent an hour in the arcade hall (air hockey and the Basket ball thingie are our favourites), but then I discovered a movie theatre. After some persuasion (I like Marvel movies more than Will does) we saw Guardians of the Galaxy. For about 5 euros. I’m still baffled by this fact.
- That evening we went out for drinks at Soi Cowboy. Man, the things I’ve seen.
- DAY 5: There are no pictures from the last day in Bangkok except this one because I didn’t bring my camera, but we did the Co van Kessel bicycle tour! I loved it way, WAY more than I thought. It so much fun and we saw so much cool stuff.
- I had read Lindsay’s blog about it (based on the pictures I’d say our tour was very similar!) and I echo her sentiments: Because you’re used to biking this tour is perfect to explore parts of Bangkok. Everyone we met recommended it and I’d recommend it to anyone too.
- After the tour we hid in the River Side Shopping Centre because of the rain, where I found Tete Quarters: A wonderful wine room and show room. I had the best glass of wine I had in a month (BLISS) and a great little Thai pizza with duck while we looked over the river and complained about having to go back home.
- We took the subway to our hostel, showered, packed and went to the airport.
- We spent our last bahts on food and coconuts, played cards and I reconnected with my Plants vs Zombies iPad game.
The 5 days in Bangkok were amazing. The fun thing about walking in a city is that everything is new anyway, so you are never bored. On top of that, the fun thing about Bangkok is that you find coconut, chicken or Coca Cola on every corner and that if you so much as sneeze there is a tuk tuk or taxi driver who wants to take you somewhere.
I’m making no promises on when I’m blogging again, but I’ll do my best babies. Talk to me on Twitter or send me something on Instagram. It makes my day when you do.
OK BYE!
(Will says hi.)
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