Back To Bangkok Baby!
So as the taxi wound it's way through the Friday night rush hour, I noticed that it wasn't as busy as it usually is on the roads, and that high up on the flyover an enormous line of cars were just parked up. Could it be that the CNN scaremongering about the floods actually hitting Bangkok were true?
As we got to my hotel - the Siam@Siam Square - I was kinda shocked to see the sandbags piled up outside MBK mall and the art gallery. After I'd checked in I asked about the weekend market at Chatuchak and was told that it was cancelled because the entire area was flooded! My god it really must be bad.
The hotel was another find on Agoda, and it's what they still call a 'design' hotel.
In the 90's this would've had the cover of *Wallpaper or a full feature in The Face. It's still kinda cool, but actually I just want somewhere clean and safe and luxurious.
Concrete walls and floors, and lights too dim to read by don't really float my boat so much these days. Still the location was fabulous being next door to the gallery, and opposite most of the massive shopping malls.
It was pretty late when I arrived and so I didn't go too far, just out for some dinner before hitting the sack. Saturday I was up with the lark and off out spending. In the entire month in Vietnam I barely bought anything other than food and drink and the odd souvenir t-shirt, but in the following 72 hours in Bangkok I more than made up for it! I really do think I am the best kind of socialist, redistributing my "wealth' wherever I go!
Apart from a fabulous pair of Nikes and a couple of things I can and will wear for gigs, I also treated myself to something I'd been after for a while, a new Thai tattoo. One of these days I'll get something really big, but for now I wanted some more words to inspire me. My mantra is Om Mani Padme Hum and so I had that translated into Thai and tattooed onto my right wrist.
While I was getting it done I was chatting to a Finnish BMX champion (?) and he was so impressed with my bravery that we ended up having dinner afterwards. Fabulous!
The rest of my time was spent organising myself for the upcoming gigs and of course booking my own flight to Singapore - more of which later - I really do love Bangkok and thankfully none of the water made it down into the centre!
As we got to my hotel - the Siam@Siam Square - I was kinda shocked to see the sandbags piled up outside MBK mall and the art gallery. After I'd checked in I asked about the weekend market at Chatuchak and was told that it was cancelled because the entire area was flooded! My god it really must be bad.
The hotel was another find on Agoda, and it's what they still call a 'design' hotel.
In the 90's this would've had the cover of *Wallpaper or a full feature in The Face. It's still kinda cool, but actually I just want somewhere clean and safe and luxurious.
Concrete walls and floors, and lights too dim to read by don't really float my boat so much these days. Still the location was fabulous being next door to the gallery, and opposite most of the massive shopping malls.
It was pretty late when I arrived and so I didn't go too far, just out for some dinner before hitting the sack. Saturday I was up with the lark and off out spending. In the entire month in Vietnam I barely bought anything other than food and drink and the odd souvenir t-shirt, but in the following 72 hours in Bangkok I more than made up for it! I really do think I am the best kind of socialist, redistributing my "wealth' wherever I go!
Apart from a fabulous pair of Nikes and a couple of things I can and will wear for gigs, I also treated myself to something I'd been after for a while, a new Thai tattoo. One of these days I'll get something really big, but for now I wanted some more words to inspire me. My mantra is Om Mani Padme Hum and so I had that translated into Thai and tattooed onto my right wrist.
While I was getting it done I was chatting to a Finnish BMX champion (?) and he was so impressed with my bravery that we ended up having dinner afterwards. Fabulous!The rest of my time was spent organising myself for the upcoming gigs and of course booking my own flight to Singapore - more of which later - I really do love Bangkok and thankfully none of the water made it down into the centre!
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posted by JoJo Smith at Sunday, November 27, 2011
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