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Bangkok – One for the kids
Blog: Matthew's Travel Blog - My thoughts on everything - 8 December 2009
Bangkok always seemed to me a bit of a paradox when it comes to kids. Sure Thai people are, on the whole, very friendly and love kids. Walking around anywhere in Bangkok, on the street or in a shopping centre your child will always attract lots of attention and coo-cooing. However to take a look at Bangkok as a city, it always struck me as being incredibly child unfriendly.
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The Beaten Path
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 5 December 2009
“But everybody goes to Thailand,” I quipped a few years back when explaining to a couple of friends why Thailand didn’t occupy a very high place on my Places to Go list. They laughed and poked fun at the hyperbolic explanation. “Oh yeah, Thailand, you may as well just go to the Jersey Shore, everybody [...]
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Friday Flashback – Bangkok
Blog: GoBackpacking - 4 December 2009
After 3 months in Nepal and India, Bangkok mine as well have been New York City to me. Culture shock hit me hard. The air-conditioning made 7-11’s feel like blast freezers. Delicious Australian cookies known as Tim Tam’s were easily available again (just like in Bali). Long-flowing saris gave way to bare-as-much-skin-as-possible clothing.
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Sold Up The Klongs
Blog: ally - 3 December 2009
We had two nights in Bangkok which began as high farce and largely continued in the same vein, ending with us promising ourselves that we will have to return one day and give the city another try. It started inauspiciously. We had agreed with Jo and Greg that we would meet them early in the [...]
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Flying To The City of Angels
Blog: ally - 3 December 2009
Day was mostly taken up with our flight from Phnom Penh to Bangkok, again with AirAsia. Early this morning we visited the National Musuem, primarily for its collection of Angkor-era statutory. Caught a tuktuk across to the mustard yellow deco Central Market, which is undergoing renovations, but we were hasselled by some surprisingly unfriendly stall-keepers. [...]
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Bangkok Pt.6
Blog: Where is Rob? - 1 December 2009
Well upon arrival in Bangkok for my 4th proper visit (a couple of times where just stop overs) I remembered why Bangkok is currently my favourite city in the world by an absolute mile! The minute I arrived it was chaos, the noise, the smells both good and bad, the traffic, the dirt and the just pure sensory overload that is Bangkok just blew my mind once again and I was so pleased to be back. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Thai Massage: The ultimate luxury or an exercise in torture?
Blog: Passed Ports: images and anecdotes from our travels - 29 November 2009
Thailand is almost synonymous with massage. You can’t go anywhere without seeing those ubiquitous enticing signs: Thai Massage 200bht, or some similar ridiculously low price. Countywide you can score an hour-long massage for about $5-10, depending on where you are (though they can be much more expensive at high-end resorts… and in certain areas – [...]
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Why is the bread green?
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 27 November 2009
As it happened, I ended up in Thailand for Loi Krathong, one of the most important Thai festivals (don't ask me anything about it, all I know is that it's important). It's celebrated in different ways in different cities. In Chiang Mai, hundreds of lanterns are released into the sky, where many catch in branches and set fire to trees, but those that do not look very pretty ascending towards the stars. In Bangkok, small baskets of flowers, candles and incense are lit and set adrift in rivers and lakes.
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Turning to page 19
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 25 November 2009
In the aftermath of the visa debacle, something unexpected happened: I remembered that I am equal parts anxious, vulnerable, fragile soul and intrepid, infinitely curious adventuress. I remembered that the world is no less my oyster simply because I cannot control its every minute pocket of insanity. (Or in the case of the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok, its big, official-looking, concrete, intimidating shithole of insanity where things are run like a choose-your-own-adventure book, only it's not you choosing, of course, it's whatever nut they've hired behind the window.
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Bangkok Explorations: The Poetics of Language and the Joys of Thai Food
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 23 November 2009
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Imagine City of Women, only without such a clear plot line
Blog: I don't wash my hair - 22 November 2009
UPDATE: My last post was plagued with uncertainty. Today the verdict is in: I am staying in Jambi! I will now continue to post stories of the last month, which may seem irrelevant at first, but it was a long, twisting road to where I ended up last week and I intend to work through it all piece by piece. So for now, we return to Thailand...
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Bangkok Pt.1
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 November 2009
Right well before I go on I did not take a single picture in Bangkok. This is for 3 reasons;1. I'm too hot and sweating to much to be arsed to carry the bastard around.2. On the first day there I thought everyone was out to mug me.3. There was nothing worth taking a photo of.So far my post about Bangkok has been the hardest one to write out of all the ones I've done so far and this is my fourth [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Bangkok Pt.4
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 November 2009
Who'd believe it Back again! I wasn't really sure what my plan was when I came back to Bangkok and I wasn't sure how long I was going to be there for or really what I would do. I headed back to Bangkok on the 12th of May and I was debating whether or not to stay here in Bangkok for my birthday as I wanted to be in a place I knew so I could work out what I wanted to do rather than go somewhere new [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Bangkok Pt.3
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 November 2009
Bangkok Pt.3 was a 2 night stop over in Bangkok which was more of a necessity rather than something we wanted to do. To get out of Cambodia we could either bus straight to Koh Samui from Siem Reap which would have been very expensive and taken nearly 30 hours or go via Bangkok stay there for a night then head down to the Thai islands as we made our way to the full moon party.The original plan was [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Back Home
Blog: Nomadic Matt's Travel Site - 16 November 2009
I’ve been back home for over a week now. After two months in Europe, I’ve come back to my friends, good drinks, Cheap Charlies, amazing food, great weather, and chaotic excitement. Yes, I’ve come back to Bangkok. Though born and raised in Boston, I consider Bangkok home now. When people ask me “where I live?” [...]
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Bangkok with children – part 3
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 27 October 2009
While Thewet is probably the most kid-friendly part of Bangkok, and Banglampu has the best family-friendly budget accommodation, we also had fun staying off Sukumvit Road and exploring the downtown attractions with Tash on our last visit to Bangkok in January 2009. We stayed at the Federal Hotel in Sukumvit Soi 11, which has been around [...]
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Bangkok with children – Part 2
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 20 October 2009
Responding to a recent inquiry about kid-friendly places to stay in Bangkok made me realise I didn’t have a post on this site about Banglampu. This part of ‘old Bangkok’ on the arc of the Chao Phraya River is well known as a backpacker desination–Khao San Road is situated there–but it’s also a good budget [...]
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SCAM BUS!
Blog: katie has itchy feet - 21 September 2009
the dubious thai - cambodian scam bus, eh?the border in question, for the record, is aranyaprathet/poipet, the most travelled crossing from bangkok to siem reap.
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Old World and New World Collide
Blog: The Q Family Adventures Travel Blog - 11 September 2009
Suvarnabhumi Airport is Thailand main hub in Bangkok that opened a few years ago. I’m pretty sure anyone visiting Thailand will have to go through this airport. I found that it was very interesting to walk around this airport and see the contrast between maintaining the thousand years old culture and keeping up with the [...]Thanks for reading my feed. Please stop by to say hi or leave a comment!
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Johnny Colt Rocks The Travel Channel
Blog: GoBackpacking - 8 September 2009
He was well spoken, and I took an immediate liking to him. Yes, I was hooked after the first few minutes.Your Free Subscriber Download Download "Dare Me!" now. Enjoy 17 off-the-wall adventures from a RTW trip.
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the songserm travelogues: part I
Blog: katie has itchy feet - 7 September 2009
okay, well if we're gonna be anally retentive about it, it's actually vol III of the songserm travelogues, but let's skip over that minor blip!
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A Backpacker’s Guide To Massages In Asia
Blog: GoBackpacking - 1 September 2009
I quickly became a connoisseur during my time in Asia. Your Free Subscriber Download Download "Dare Me!" now. Enjoy 17 off-the-wall adventures from a RTW trip.
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Here’s A Quick Way To Spice Up Your Travels
Blog: GoBackpacking - 31 August 2009
When I was a kid, I remember being in my best friend’s kitchen as he suckled a bottle of Tabasco sauce for sheer pleasure. I assumed he could inherently handle it because he was Asian, and I wasn’t. In reality, the reason had to do with the differing cultural environments in which we were brought [...]Your Free Subscriber Download
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Thailand 1: Hot in the City
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 22 August 2009
May the caffeine gods forgive me - I had a coffee today which contained a layer of condensed milk in the bottom of the glass.
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When East Meets West, Bangkok Is What It Should Look Like
Blog: EZGuler - 20 August 2009
We are in the first hour of our 15-hour train ride from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. This is an express train yet we haven't "expressed" our way very far since we have traveled a total of 15 minutes in a whole hour and we were only going 20 kilometers per hour. We are currently waiting at a station and have been for the last 20 minutes. Who are we waiting for? Perhaps a monk to arrive, who wants to catch a ride back to Chiang Mai after his long weekend in celebration of Buddha Day.
