Saturday, February 22, 2025

22 Feb 2025 Bangkok: Great Place-Great Location

 


Bangkok, Thailand has been on our radar for a long time but this is our first visit.  Thailand is the 34th country in the last 33 months and that is not counting the repeats: Canada, England, UAE, Singapore and Australia.  We are glad that  we did not miss our flight.  We had  so much time at the airport that we were just  chilling and did not notice that the gate had changed.  We hightailed it from gate 9 to gate 5 all the way across the airport. Thankfully it was not that  big an airport.  We got there in time and still had to wait a few minutes before they started boarding.  We landed early and got through immigration very fast.  Our driver took us to the place in short order and we were soon getting the tour of the place by two octogenarians.  They were very knowledgeable about the apartment but did not move so fast which was a plus.  Ten days here is going to be fun and we have done a good deal planning so we know what we want to do.  As luck would have it, the dispensary is 500 ft from our front door and we didn't even have to cross the street.    We love the apartment, it is like an art gallery in all its decoration.  We saw a sushi restaurant when we were returning from the  dispensary and went there for dinner.  Between then we took a little break at 4:20 and also hit up the 7-11 for eggs and yogurt for the morning. We toured the building and found the pool. gym and 25th floor observations areas.   The sushi bar was top notch and we filled ourselves for roughly fifty dollars.  Returning back, we finally crossed the street and toured  the foodie hall.



Leaving Da Nang


Landing in Bangkok


Rows and rows of identical housing units


The alphabet is very different


Big buildings everywhere in this city of 12,000,000


Not our transportation, thank goodness


We see traffic everywhere


The dispensary guys


All smiles!


100% legal!


Time for our 4:20 bonfire

Be-cawww-se we can



Shouldn't it say oink oink?


We went exploring


Found the pool. gym and the view of Lumpini Park


Nice pool


We will be in this pool for sure


A distinct cluster of buildings


A new tower going up


Not quite sure if the pointy part goes with this building or not


We are in the heart of the city


A mystery circle seen from 25 stories up


Nice interior space


A monk in prayer


Talk to the hand


A cool lamp


Koi yin and koi yang


So many beautiful pieces in the apartment


Another monk


Soup to start, soon all these tables will be full


A salmon themed dish


Lots of pieces on a platter


Three rounds of soup were delivered to to the table.  They did not even wait until we finished our bowls before bringing another


This is the foodie depot


The interior of the foodie depot


Maybe 25 different food stalls are spread out over three floors


Plus they have chicken


Chicken crack


I found a dumpling house!


The decor gave it away


Neon Cat


 It has been 2 years and 261 days since we began our Migration