We arrive about 10pm, and sail through immigration (unlike the last time I was there) and after navigating our way up and down the airport a few times to get to the taxi rank, we get one and head to the Glow Trinity Hotel – our home for the next few days. Adrian chats to the driver about hiring him for a day trip to Ayutthaya and he seems reasonable (2000 Baht – 200MYR – £40) so we take his number and arrange to call him tomorrow to confirm. I was quite surprised that as we left the cold dry air of the air-conditioned airport and stepped into the open air of Bangkok that I wasn’t hit by a wave of hot, humid and smelly air – it was actually cold. Well, that’s if you can call 18 degrees ‘cold’. It was really quite refreshing.
The hotel was lovely, but our rooms are not next to each other, which is a bit annoying seeing as we specifically asked when we booked a month ago. Still, never mind - we ask that they move us to rooms nearer each other, and they’ll look into it, but the hotel is full. Oh well...
After a quick unpack and freshen up, we head out to Silom for a drink and some food – it is quite late, but the place is still alive. We head for a bar called Telephone which is on this street where all the bar staff are hanging out on the street and are virtually orgasming when we walk down the street, trying to lure us into their dens of iniquity! I. LOVE. IT.
So we have beer and Thai food, which was really welcome after the journey and I was starving. It’s late and most places are closing now, so we head back to the hotel at about 2 am, get a little lost on the way home in the dark, smelly streets of Bangkok, and go to bed. We had already decided that tomorrow’s planned agenda of going to the floating market at 0630 is not going to happen (how ridiculous were we to even think of such a thing!) and arrange to meet for breakfast at a much more reasonable 0830...
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