Arriving in Bangkok after nearly a month in India was pure bliss. Everything seems sparkling clean and orderly. Even the traffic jam's are orderly, people don't try to cut the queue and noone honks their horns... It was such a shock!
We stayed at the beautiful Legacy Suites, just off Sukhumvit. This place is fantastic! The rooms are huge and are more like apartments, rather than hotel rooms. The rooms have luxury bathrooms and even a proper working kitchen!! We delighted in being able to cook proper meals for ourselves for the first time in nearly 5 months... It was bliss!
One day we took the kids to the Children's Discovery Museum, it's a place where kids rule and touching and interacting with the displays is what it's all about. It was a whole heap of fun watching the kids discovering new things, and hearing their squeals of delight when Alain put them in the bubble machine and made a huge bubble around them. Or my fits of laughter when Alain tried to cram himself into the womb of the 'reproductive' Mummy's body...
We truely didn't do a hell of a lot on our first trip to Bangkok. The most exciting thing we did (and by far the most important) was that we discovered the wonderful food hall in the Siam Paragon shopping centre. There is one whole floor of the shopping centre dedicated entirely to food, it was AMAZING! There was the most wonderful gourmet supermarket, which had a huge selection of free food sampling stations (much to our delight) and there are numerous food stalls selling everything imaginable from the most delicate french inspired pastries, to the most pungent fermented fish eggs (and everything else in between). Alain and I were both completely blown away by the variety and quality of foods on offer here, it truely is a foodies paradise!
After a few days in Bangkok we took the very rocky/swaying overnight train up to Chiang Mai. It was a long trip, but the kids though it was fantastic that we were going to be sleeping on the train and we were grateful that they sold alcohol onboard.
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