Laura our coffee queen exploded coffee in the microwave twice this morning. She’s been demoted. Hopefully it’s not a sign of the day to come as we’re off to the Jj markets.
I’m after a winter jacket and it’s 30 plus degrees.

Jj markets was overwhelming. Unordered masses of stalls everywhere. We’d made lists of what we wanted but they soon became redundant as there’s no point having one when you don’t know where anything is.
The markets had everything you could imagine, like everything. Bunnies in dresses? You got it.

Puppies? Ok.

The fun was in stumbling upon gems like leather? handbags or the exquisitely hand painted shell ornaments. Impulsive but justified buy, such talent.

The heat was so oppressive, might as well have been hot yoga, sweaty. Without food we couldn’t last at the markets for more than 3 hours, our popcorn breakfast at 11am wasn’t very sustainable. Pearls of being gluten free. We hopped back into Garn’s families personally driven car sighing as the air con hit us. You know it’s hot when 25 degrees feels cool.
Traditional papaya salad for 4pm lunch, delicious spicy spicy deliious.

Checked out of the condo today, it was sad to say bye to our first Bangkok home but leaving means the start of our next adventure. The pool views will be missed.

Walked into the station tonight on the way to our flashy hotel, 6 pm. Everyone was freeze framed it was so weird there was odd music playing so I weaved through the crowd heading for the ticket desk not hearing Laura say my name. Turns out Lauren-dopy-double-pack has walked through a 6pm memorial, so freaking insensitive I felt so bad.
Following this moment of disrupted silence we entered the BTS train at the busiest time of day and continued to feel like the most insensitive pricks that ever were. Packs front and back make for poor sardine train material especially when more people hop on and no one hops off. We made it out alive though and into the under ground. We are winning at this public transport system.

Hotel Centra Central Station is a hotel befitting of my business class status and Laura’s general superiority. Our toilet paper is even wrapped in satin. Oh la la.

We were pretty quick to unclass the joint though.

Had our first glimpse of the worlds largest China Town through the China Gate. Promising great adventures tomorrow.

Today is the tomorrow mentioned previously. As we’re at a new hotel we decided ‘new place, new us’ and hit the gym for an early morning sesh before one hell of a buffet breakfast. Gym phot shot on a nosey the night before.

Oh look Christmas once again.

We had multiple courses for breakfast and will do the same tomorrow #fitspo.

Welcome to China Town!

We took a turn off the Main Street and bam! Markets. Looked fun so we headed in deeper for an explore. Every turn and shop you looked into the people got denser. It was an incredible experience and a general consensus was that it was better than the JJ Markets and much better food stall smells than general Bangkok streets, no chocking burnt chilli. You start in one market that’s cushions, teddies, clothes and one dash across a road an end up in tech land, round the corner food food food, down a side road car parts, men’s clothes and x-rated entertainment (obvious market combination). So much fun but the people in this area of town are very demanding and pushy which was a bit of a change from the people we’ve experienced so far and a little disappointing.

As our hunger/dehydration increased with every turn into the maze we were plotting our escape. Thanks to our height advantage we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. Absolute relief, rather the opposite to how a dying man would feel seeing a similar light.
Laura failed dramatically at eating the meat of her coconut for lunch today. I’m offering tutorials to all.

Headed back to meet our tour group as we set off first thing tomorrow. Turns out it’s all girls bar one. There’s a mix of Australians, Austrians, Germans and state and obviously Nz. Should be a good time! We know what’s happening on the tour but will leave the element of surprise up here.

We’ve covered some awesome ground since we’ve been in Bangkok and Laura’s camera kindly documented it all for us(they didn’t all fit on the screen). It’s been a great time and an awesome first taste of Thai culture. Thanks Bangkok.

Invested parties: We made an executive decision and book a bit of R&R post tour (4th Jan) at Koh Samui then off to Chang Mai- whoopee!