Bangkok (again)
We arrived at Bangkok's Hua Lamphong station at around 7 in the morning and, having failed to pack anything like enough food, were absolutely starving. As we were carrying our heavy backpacks with all of our stuff, we thought it best not to dally around the centre of Bangkok and decided the best thing to do was to get to the hotel as quickly as possible. We tried to get a cab but for some reason had trouble finding a driver who would take us to the hotel. We never really did figure out why; maybe it just wasn't a large enough fare or perhaps it was that we only had the hotel's name in Latin script and not Thai, although I did also trying showing the drivers the route using Google maps. Eventually, on I think the 4th or 5th attempt, we found a driver who would take us and headed to our hotel, which wasn't all that far away from where we'd stayed a couple of weeks prior but was even more luxurious and spacious. We couldn't, however, check in yet, so we left our bags behind and went out to find some breakfast. It turns out that this is not easy early on a Sunday morning in Bangkok but we eventually stumbled upon a hotel that did a reasonable cooked breakfast. Sufficiently fortified, we went for a walk to Bangkok's Lumphini park and, after being allowed to check in at around 1 o'clock, proceeded to crash out for a few hours. The combination of the train journey, not getting enough sleep and a cold I'd been fighting since Chiang Mai took their collective toll and, after sleeping, we decided to eat in the hotel restaurant. This is not normally something we'd do but it actually turned out to be a good idea as the food was excellent. The hotel also benefited from having an outside pool with a fantastic view over the surrounding skyscrapers, so we relaxed out there for a while before heading off to bed.


The lounge of our hotel suite.


Lumphini park.


Our last taste of Thai food for this trip - red curry chicken.


Our last taste of Thai food for this trip - some Pad Thai.




The pool!