Bangkok - Thursday and Friday

We met up with Julia and Caroline and took a tuk-tuk to the Grand Palace. It was spectacularly extravagant. I'll let the photos do the talking:

It's like the worlds biggest photoshoot

The lady on the left is wearing a skirt that blends in with the steps

More gold than..???... Mr T

Juxtaposition. Because I love that word.

I'm the pap who paps the papper

Outside the temple of the Emerald Buddha. Some good meditation in there.

Doing those all identically by hand is beyond impressive

Painting on a long stretch of wall. It went a LOT further

Julia was definitely in charge

Us and Julia

Too sweaty for any bodily contact!

Afterwards, we had planned to go to Wat Arun and some of the other tourist spots around town, but everyone was just too tired and hot and sticky to do any of that so we went back for a shower and a chill. A few hours later Andy and I dragged ourselves out of our comfy, air conditioned room, and got dinner.

Andy keeping a close eye on the preparation of his Pad Thai

We then went and got a drink and shisha, eventually deciding that as we liked it so much we would return to Sukhumvit one last time while we were in Bangkok. It was Halloween night, and there was a lot going on in Khaosan, which made the tuk-tuk ride very quick as lots of people were heading in the opposite direction. We went pretty fast at one point:

Andy keeping a close eye on the preparation of his Pad Thai

This is what it looks like where the clubs are:

Andy keeping a close eye on the preparation of his Pad Thai

We had an awesome night at the disco, played pool, got breakfast, and staggered in at some ludicrously late hour, resulting in us not waking up until very late the next day. We packed and chilled out, before heading out to our favourite bar to while away the evening and reflect on what Bangkok had done to us. We rounded off the evening with crêpes from this artist:

Andy keeping a close eye on the preparation of his Pad Thai

One thing is for sure; we are both certain we want to come back some day, hopefully sooner rather than later!

Andy keeping a close eye on the preparation of his Pad Thai