An early start
29 mars 2018, England ⋅ 🌧 6 °COff to Gatwick for a 7.40 flight to Amsterdam. Hopefully the weather will hold out for a couple of hours sightseeing before the start of the Amsterdam - London - Hong Kong start of our trip.
Off to Gatwick for a 7.40 flight to Amsterdam. Hopefully the weather will hold out for a couple of hours sightseeing before the start of the Amsterdam - London - Hong Kong start of our trip.
Well, an hour or two. In transit at Amsterdam there’s time for a quick trip into town by train from Schipol. A brisk stroll along a few of the narrower canals marvelling at the centuries oldLäs mer
Here’s where the trip really starts. I meet up with the rest of the family for the long journey to Hong Kong on a BA A380. The quieter aircraft will make a difference to grabbing some sleep on theLäs mer
Hong Kong is a great stopover location for any journey to Asia and Australia so we have passed through here many times. We arrive in mid afternoon so there’s time to drop the bags at the airportLäs mer
As we were alerted, our flight is two hours late leaving Hong Kong so we eventually arrive in Bangkok in late afternoon. We intend to take the airport express train into town but this service is notLäs mer
Off to Chatuchak Weekend market today. The Sheraton has a shuttle boat to the nearest Skytrain station at Saphan Taksin so that’s a useful start. Skytrain (BTS) is an elevated Metro railway servingLäs mer
Heading out of the Sheraton we take the local boat service (red line) for 45 baht for 3 of us (that's about £1) to Chang Pier. A short walk gets us to the entrance to the Grand Palace, one of the keyLäs mer
We didn't get to finish the most famous temples in Bangkok yesterday so it is back to the Orange flag ferry for the 10 minute journey from the pier near our hotel (Sri Phaya) - to Wat Arun. Wat ArunLäs mer
Bangkok’s canals - or Khlongs to the locals - were created in the 16th century to help speed up the voyage to the sea for foreign merchants. By the 19th Century there were so many Bangkok was dubbedLäs mer