bangkok

Magical Mornings in Bangkok

December 9, 2013

This Thanksgiving, we spent half a week in Bangkok enroute to wedding festivities in the Philippines. German and I were there last in 2009, on backpacker’s budgets. Back then, we stayed in hole-in-the-wall hotels, walked the local markets and splurged on one night of fine dining to get the full spectrum of Thai and tourist […]






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Thailand – land of smiles

May 26, 2009

Sawasadee-ka! I’m en-route to London now – with a stop in Dubai. The sun is rising (it’s 6:30am) – another timezone, another airplane, and another amazing amazing holiday. I don’t know where to start. Thailand was everything and nothing like I expected. We arrived in Bangkok at night. All lights and sounds and hot hot […]






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Bangkok Day 1

May 16, 2009

Everyone looks like me here but shorter!!!! And they all talk to me inThai. Then confusion when I answer in English. :). Its going to be aninteresting week. We went to Sirocco rooftop bar for dinner tonight. It is stunning.Open air 61st floor restaurant perched beside the river. Jazz band.Candles. Crab and duck and mango/coconut […]






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