AIM House, Bangkok, Day 2

After a long day yesterday we make the most of he nice room we have and enjoy a nice lie in. One of the main reasons we have come to Bangkok is because of the shopping, and we plan to have full bags when we go home, so today will be devoted to that. When we finally rise we get ready and jump on the skytrain. Yesterday hasn't put us off, and we feel we just got on at a very bad time as the train now isn't too busy at all.
We are heading to the MBK centre which is in the middle of the city and is hard to miss as it is the last stop on the line. We jump off and walk the 100 or so metres and we are in. Our first thought is food, and we so we head up to the sixth floor and the food court.
It is huge, with plenty of different options to choose from. I end up picking the wrong dish from the multitude available and have a pretty nasty chili sausage dish that tastes like aniseed, but Amy's green curry is amazing.
The mall is very big, and we luckily stumble upon a market that is pretty cool. It has stuff that feels much better quality then some of the stuff you would buy on markets outside, and the people on the stalls don't seem to be so insistent you buy something, apart from one woman who harrassed me with so many questions of size, colour and prize that I felt like I was being interrogated. Somehow we spend a couple of hours just wandering. I say somehow because I usually last about ten minutes in a market.
We wandered around the mall all afternoon, taking advantage of the lovely air conditioning, and only heading outside breifly. It was very hot as we expected, so we didn't hang about. When time to eat tea came round, we found a lovely Indian stall in the food court and bought a curry set each which was lovely.
Time for the skytrain again. Yesterdays ordeal took place at around 5.45, so we felt rather worried when heading to the station at 5. The rush must not hit until around 5.30 though, after everyone has finished work and made their way to the station, and we enjoyed a rather peaceful journey back to the hotel in a not too crowded train.
All the walking around the markets has taken it out of us today. Apart from one trip out for food (rice and some apparently boiled eggs that turned out to be white goo in a shell and were very promptly thrown in the bin) we just chill out and try and plan how we will spend our remaining days here. The flight home is getting closer and closer!Читать далее