eat, drink, travel, repeat
Bangkok is one of my favourite cities and a great place to shop. Here are my 5 Top Bangkok Shopping Spots for hunting and gathering. Pack light and go nuts. Top Bangkok Shopping Spots 1) Chatuchack Weekend Market Be warned- this is one mother of a market. It’s home to over 15,000 stalls and spread out across […]
Despite a love affair with Bangkok, we have decided to live in Cambodia – Asha has got a good job, we have found a great apartment and we really love Phnom Penh. We needed to do a Visa run – leaving Cambodia so that we could re-enter with business/NGO visas. What better excuse to spend […]
After easily hopping on and off boats, bikes, utes and vans down the coast, and witnessing the prowess of Bangkok’s public transport systems firsthand, we were keen to add to our transport repertoire and test out what else was on offer. Next an old favourite – the sleeper train! To venture north to Chiang Mai […]
No, seriously. 711’s are everywhere in Thailand, and you can barely walk a block in the capital without bumping into one. And they sell everything!!! Beer, spirits, hot dogs and burgers, a baffling array of yakult and so many random asians snack you will freak out – all of life’s necessities in one fluorescently lit […]
In our own personal homage to TV’s Tom Haverford, Asha and I set out on our very on ‘Treat Yo Self’ Day, Bangkok style. Breakfast a posh french creperie, a couple of hours spent at a luxurious spa getting massages, cocktails on the roof of one of Bangkok’s tallest buildings and dinner at a Japanese […]
For a long time now, Khao San road has been the backpacker hangout in Bangkok – a short street packed with bars, massage parlours and street vendors, where you can buy a fake driver license, get a tattoo, and have a massage while drinking cocktails of rum and red bull from buckets (really, buckets). We […]
A cheap city like Bangkok means a delicious dinner can be found for a few dollars – but it also means when you want to splurge a bit, things get VERY gourmet. With a serious craving for peking duck pancakes, Asha and I set off for Bangkok’s chinatown and after a couple of hours of […]