Back in BKK

The night bus from Phuket to Bangkok was surprisingly nice, they even offered you a bottle of water, mysterious readily buttered and packed slice of toast and a blanket for free! The seats were superb and I guess the only negative thing about the trip was the Thai "easy listening" radio the driver was blasting through the first three hours of the journey. After that they stopped for 15 minutes and I was finally able to get some sleep. That is until we continued the journey and I woke up to the sound of massive gunfire and car chases. I guess the midnight movie was some local action flick and for some reason it was apparently absolutely necessary to turn the volume up a notch that the effects can be actually felt on the edge of your seat... Hovering somewhere between sleep and the Thai car chase reality the movie finally ended and around 2am the silence finally fell over the bus. So about 4 hours of sound sleep before arriving in some bus terminal somewhere around Bangkok that three locals weren't able to put on a map. Had some coffee and ended up chatting about religion, politics, nasal inhalers and import business with a local entrepreneur for two hours. Afterwards a 10km cab ride to my future University and after taking care of some business and taking a look at my possible future residence I headed back to the infamous Khao San road from where I had to get some passport photos, accommodation and bus tickets to Vientiane. And meet my mother the following morning. :)

We made a quick tour around Bangkok, cruised on the river Chao Phya, strolled around in Chinatown and killed time getting some massages, pedicures and facials. (foot massage, half an hour: 120 baht, facial 200 baht). And blogging of course. If you speak fluent Finnish and would like to follow her journey as well, here is a link to her blog.