Today is my second day in Bangkok, and I'm really enjoying the city. Huge place, and there is cheap and scrumptious food everywhere. The key is to eat what the locals eat and to avoid the restaurants filled with tourists. Getting around is also easy, with a billion taxis on every street and tuk-tuks constantly trying to get your attention I met the other i-to-i volunteers last night and we all went to a beer garden somewhere by train and taxi. They're a lovely bunch; two of them are going with me to Koh Tao - one is doing environmental conservation and the other is going to do a Muay Thai boxing course. We drank Tiger beer and had market food last night before setting out to look at the local flea markets. They sell Tasers here on the street. Scary stuff.
Our co-ordinators here are excellent and very helpful. We're all getting very excited about going to Koh Tao from what they've told us. There's a place at the top of the island called Mango Bay which apparently has wonderful snorkelling. And then there's a legendary twenty thousand people full moon beach party in next few weeks on a neighbouring island, which we are all very keen on going to. My co-ordinator in Koh Tao sounds rather punk rock, he's apparently an Italian ex-pat covered in tattoos.
For the first time in my life today a dish (chilli-beef) actually managed to move me to tears - it was that hot. That experience was soon remedied though by a local type of melted-marshmallow taco, which was obscenely sweet and indulgent. Speaking of which, I must mention that everything here in Thailand is sweeter and stronger. All the Coca-Cola products have extra sugar in them, and more than two bottles of Red Bull (pure syrup, not the carbonated, watered-down stuff the rest of the world gets) could get you very sick. I only discovered today that Red Bull was invented here.
Leaving tonight on a bus for the coast (The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round!), and then taking a ferry to Koh Tao in the morning.
Love and hugs to all :)
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It sounds awesome! I hope the bus (with its wheels, which go round and round) trip is good and you get there safely. And happily.
ReplyDeleteBut you lie, sir, about the chilli beef. I have definitely seen a green curry move you to tears before. Yes.
Have lots of fun!
Ha! It seems you are going to come back in the form of, as they say in the old country, "a great pudding". :P
ReplyDelete*feels like a prat for asking "Have you seen much of the city?" without first checking blog; then, however, realises that Hein has not so much SEEN Bangkok as TASTED it*
*now feels like a prat again for implying that Hein has been licking the pavements*
To eponine254: Really? I can't recall where... Hmmm... But this was seriously crying-my-eyes-out-for-several-minutes hot!
ReplyDeleteTo Jessica: LOL! Mmmm, that pavement was nice, REAL NICE :P
To you both: Thanks for the comments. I miss you guys! And HUGGINGS! :)
I thought you learned your lesson earlier this year when we went to the Thai festival. Chili Beef very hot!!!!!
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