Day 3 in Thailand
Not heaps to report about. We're currently taking a breather and cooling down in a net cafe right outside of Khao San Road.
We had a HUGE sleep in this morning (9am!!!!) and no gym, but had breakfast and lazed around the hotel room while getting ready and didn't actually get out of there til 11.30am or so. The last few days had been quite overcast and hazy and weren't too hot, so we thought we might try and walk to Khao San road, knowing it would take at least 2 hours, but at least we would see heaps of the local sights on the way.
but today its full on sunny and HOT HOT HOT! so after about half an hour we gave up and jumped in a cab. Mum had worn jeans and sneakers and was dying of heat, so we bought her a trendy cheesecloth skirt and some straw thongs with bells on them (whole outfit not costing more than $15- which was still quite a rip off for here) so now she's coping with the heat alot better.
A found a stall selling shirts with funky designs, half of the designs were total rip offs of threadless.com designs or other shirts designs i have seen selling in the valley markets for $30 or more! I also found some girls tank tops with intricate material/lace etc sewn into the back of them - which I've also seen in the valley markets and stores selling for quite a price. I picked one up from this stall for $6!!
I totally thought those shirts were handmade in australia, but lo and behold they're thai!
By this stage we were both hot and bothered again so we sat down in the closest beer garden and shared a tallie of Beer Chang..... I had no idea that beer chang was 6.4% alcohol!!!! No wonder they say it has the kick of an elephant the next day. hehehe
I'm going to take mum down the road after we're done on the net, and show her the backpackers place I stayed at 4 years ago, and will see if i can find my Fruit smoothie in a plastic bag stall that I went to every day. I wonder if the beer gardens around there will still have guys sitting out the front yelling "BEER CHANG 40 BAHT!" or if they will have gone up to 50 baht or more....
Yesterday after we sent our emails, we found a massage place on the street and had our second hour long foot massage - this time for only 139 baht ($4.96). again, it was pure bliss. We ventured over to Patpong last nite and spent even more money on cool shit and got hit up by so many guys wanting us to check out the girly shows. they are so not discreet about it. argh its so wrong!
I ended up really sad, because I found half a dozen stalls that were selling convincing fake bags, including a BLACK version of my Chloe bag. I had paid 2200 baht for it in a shop yesterday, but I managed to knock down a lady to under 2000 baht last night. But at the last minute I resisted buying a second one just because..... oh well! it was still a bargin.
Ok, now we're off to wander around some more and than have some more beers for our last night in Bangkok. tomorrow we fly to Chiang Rai, up north.
We had a HUGE sleep in this morning (9am!!!!) and no gym, but had breakfast and lazed around the hotel room while getting ready and didn't actually get out of there til 11.30am or so. The last few days had been quite overcast and hazy and weren't too hot, so we thought we might try and walk to Khao San road, knowing it would take at least 2 hours, but at least we would see heaps of the local sights on the way.
but today its full on sunny and HOT HOT HOT! so after about half an hour we gave up and jumped in a cab. Mum had worn jeans and sneakers and was dying of heat, so we bought her a trendy cheesecloth skirt and some straw thongs with bells on them (whole outfit not costing more than $15- which was still quite a rip off for here) so now she's coping with the heat alot better.
A found a stall selling shirts with funky designs, half of the designs were total rip offs of threadless.com designs or other shirts designs i have seen selling in the valley markets for $30 or more! I also found some girls tank tops with intricate material/lace etc sewn into the back of them - which I've also seen in the valley markets and stores selling for quite a price. I picked one up from this stall for $6!!
I totally thought those shirts were handmade in australia, but lo and behold they're thai!
By this stage we were both hot and bothered again so we sat down in the closest beer garden and shared a tallie of Beer Chang..... I had no idea that beer chang was 6.4% alcohol!!!! No wonder they say it has the kick of an elephant the next day. hehehe
I'm going to take mum down the road after we're done on the net, and show her the backpackers place I stayed at 4 years ago, and will see if i can find my Fruit smoothie in a plastic bag stall that I went to every day. I wonder if the beer gardens around there will still have guys sitting out the front yelling "BEER CHANG 40 BAHT!" or if they will have gone up to 50 baht or more....
Yesterday after we sent our emails, we found a massage place on the street and had our second hour long foot massage - this time for only 139 baht ($4.96). again, it was pure bliss. We ventured over to Patpong last nite and spent even more money on cool shit and got hit up by so many guys wanting us to check out the girly shows. they are so not discreet about it. argh its so wrong!
I ended up really sad, because I found half a dozen stalls that were selling convincing fake bags, including a BLACK version of my Chloe bag. I had paid 2200 baht for it in a shop yesterday, but I managed to knock down a lady to under 2000 baht last night. But at the last minute I resisted buying a second one just because..... oh well! it was still a bargin.
Ok, now we're off to wander around some more and than have some more beers for our last night in Bangkok. tomorrow we fly to Chiang Rai, up north.
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