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Bangkok: Scotish Birthday / Cumpleaños Escocés

8 September 2006 9:39 AM | In Bangkok, Nightlife, Travel |

What a better way to celebrate my 26 birthday that going for an adventure in one of the most amazing cities I have ever visited. I have travelled quite a lot but never like this, totally alone, withouth knowing anyone in the place and withouth having accommodation there. I just had the address of what was supposed the street with hotels for foreign people in Bangkok. A typical backpacker place called Khao San Road. How to describe this city in a few words… amazing. It was only a couple of days but I got the impression that Bangkok is a place you either hate or fall in love with. Absolutely caotic, pollution everywhere, huge, you walk arround smelling every kind of stuff, with people trying to sell you whatever you may want. I got to Kaho San where, as I had read, there was foreign people all over and many affordable places to stay. The street itself is amazing, lights everywhere, backpackers coming and going, thai food places and every kind of shops. Definitely the place had nothing to do with the very tidy and clean Singapore, this is another world.

So I get my individual room, with AC and shower. Not luxury but fair enough..

Can you imagine how I spent the rest of the afternoon? Buying a new camera of course, first contact with the tahi culture, here you can negociate any price. Luckily, the change euro - bath (thai currency) is quite convinient so in the end you get good deals. After that, it was my birthday and I was about to celebrate it alone, besides, I was totally exhausted and sweating like hell. 10 pm, what should I do? Going to sleep? That would be sad… I decided to get down to the hotel bar and have a drink, this is also cheap here. So I sit down there, totally alone and sad and I start ordering mojitos. The good thing about these kind of places is that there are many people in the same situation, you see them hanging arround, having dinner alone or reading a book, normally after a while they leave. After I spent some time studying the situation and only when I got the inspiration that only a good rum can provide I started to expand my non-existing social circle. First I spoke with a lonely american guy, jajaja jojojojo and later on we also became friends of a group of scottish guys, finally we went out with them. So the night ended up been quite funny, much more than it was mean to be. Nothing spectacular, some temporarly friends so I dont spend my birthday alone