Today marks the day Marty Mcfly arrives from 1985 in Back to the Future I I. It is also 3 months since I left London.
I got to Bangkok this morning. I've only driven to the hostel in a taxi so I'm not sure I have an accurate opinion yet. The taxi driver barely even ripped me off and there wasn't a swarm of drivers outside the airport harassing me like I was told to expect. In fact it was all very civilised.
The flight was fairly awful, like they usually are. I didn't sleep at all on the plane so when I got to the hostel that's all I wanted to do. Check in wasn't for another 3 hours so I found a bean bag and went to sleep on that for 4 hours, then checked in and went to sleep again. It's now 1:20am and I'm wide awake and hungry.
I went downstairs to get something to drink and it was like daylight outside. The place is glowing. I couldn't even tell what was lightning the street up, it was just a glow from everywhere. I want to go out and have a look around but I'm not sure it would be a good time to explore a strange city.
Absolutely. Get out and explore! Bangkok is one of those cities that never sleeps. Especially the Ko Sahn Road, if that's where you're staying.
ReplyDeleteGeez look at you, splashing out on a taxi from the airport. Local buses cost like 5 cents.
Actually, in most cases stick to taxis as they have meters and air con, and are usually cheaper than the meterless tuk tuks who will charge you gringo prices. So taxis or local buses, avoid the tuk tuks.
Hostel? Haven't you got a friend living in Bangkok? Stink cunt not offering you a couch.
Looks like you've failed in my two (easy) challenges - can I have my $150 back?
I slept again most of today. What a waste. Heading out tonight though. Think I'll just go out whenever I'm awake no matter what time it is. So wrecked after the flight.
DeleteMate here is about to move to China so he hasn't got a place anymore.
Still time to do the couch surfing. Thinking about seeing what I can do about chiang mai. But you can have your 150 back. I'll leave it to you in my will. As an iou