Moving around in Bangkok

One may wonder "how do I move around in such a big city?" The answer is moving around in Bangkok is easy as there are all means of ways to move around. From Underground train, elevated train, Taxi, boats, tuk tuks and motocycles. Forgot to mention Buses, from airconditioned ones to non.

Remember to grab a Bangkok Map from anywhere especially at the tourist office to elevated train stations.

The simple truth is that traffic in Bangkok is huge, you can find yourself sitting in the bus or taxi for hours, which in the slopes of Mt. Kenya where I was born you would walk like nothing. But since Im not there, I have to find a way to move, so if your routes are covered by the sky train, you had better go for it which means 0 time in the traffic.

Taxis are cheap, it is not like in the west where you sit in a taxi and your heart jumps every time the meter ticks. My recent taxi experience is on our way to the airport last August from Bologna - Bologna airport was something like 5 kilometers and I don't want to talk about the rate here as I will scare you. Here, taxi meter starts at 35 baht (baht is the local currency)


I have seen many people here prefer the motorbykes, I have no idea how much they cost but of course less than taxi. I do not have much to say about this motocycle thing only that they are able to avoid stopping in the traffic as it is easy for them to pass in small spaces possible.
Talking of motors and Me a child from the slopes of Mt. Kenya, in my village there were only 2 motocycles and they belonged to veterinarians , even the cows and sheep in the village nodded when they passed by as they could tell it was there doctor on his way home or to work. And, one of them had an accident and we all were scared about this 2 wheel gadget. Anyway everyone used to say they were dangerous. Up to date I would not have the courage to sit on them especially in a trafficky town like Bangkok. This is personal nothing to do with the way they ride for heavens sake. Feel free to ride.



You might also want to try the TUK TUK experience, they always tell you 10 baht, and the experience I had they took us to a shopping center instead of the temple we wanted to visit. But, I think they can tell the new arrivals.

I leave you to read this for today and lets see what tomorrow brings.

End child prostitution! Now

Today is a big day. Bloggers are uniting to blog about abuse. Lets create awareness by passing the word.

So, Adventures abroad blog is calling on all travellers whether domestic or international to say NO to child prostitution, join ECPAT to put an END to CHILD PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN FOR SEXUAL PURPOSES.

ECPAT is a network of organisations and individuals working
together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.

Visit ECPAT INTERNATIONAL

To donate to ECPAT INTERNATIONAL visit Donation Page

Help stop abuse and pass this link to someone else

Eat out or In?

My first week here was full of eating out, Im a lover of good food and hope you too are. Bangkok is the only town have seen where everyone seem to eat out every day. This is because of many restaurants around 6pm you will find that almost all sidewalks becomes restaurants. The whole town becomes a whole big in and open restaurant. Its amazing.

I hope to get a few photos of this and bring over to you in the next few days. There is food everywhere, every time. So, I recommend next time you come over try not only Mac and Kfc but also these side restaurants. You can eat from fish to curry and of course lots of vegetables.

But as I said before I love cooking and I just watch neighbours come home with there rice and curry in small food bags and dinner is done.

But never mind, if you are here and you are not the spicy type of person you will enjoying wonderful food from all over the world, there are international restaurants so there is something for everyone.

Well if you are travelling to Bangkok, feel free to drop me a line and say hi.

Wednesday the 12th

Now settled and in the new apartment. My son going to school Im the one left to find how to fill my free time.

The day seemed hotter than usual, after walking for hours in search of an Internet cafè I finally came to Asok (elevated train station)and I had vowed to take the train and go to the other part of the town where I knew there were internet cafès.
But as soon as this idea came into my head, guess what, there it was infront of me. A guy who was cleaning the windows indicated it was upstairs. I was happy at least to rest a little bit after almost 2 hours walking in the heat of Bangkok.
My email boxes were exploding with incoming mails this is partly because of the volunteer work I have been doing with Nabuur.com.

I sat there reading mails for 3 hours, believe it or not I could not reply to everyone, next time. I realised that my son was about to come home from school, I took a taxi and rushed back home. Forgot to mention that it was not easy to get used to his homework. Now he is coping better and even enjoying it.

Now I have to stop and fill in 1 or 2 sudoku puzzles and then sleep.
See you tomorrow

Neighbourhood

Hi and a big hallo from Bangkok.

From Italy to Thailand was as long as it could be. Arrived in Bangkok and found it as we left 2 years ago except for many new highrise buildings.

The week that followed our arrival was busy one looking for an apartment and school for the small one.

A big hallo from Bangkok!

You might have been wondering whats happening with this girl. Here I am, our journey started on the 13 of July. From Valcea in Romania we ended home in Italy, the following morning we flew to Cairo for a week holiday, we had miles to spend and we chose to go to Cairo. A week in Cairo passed like lightening, I could have stayed more but this is where the budget took us.

Our flight back was cancelled, they put us in Rome flight instead of Milan with long waiting hours for connection flight to Bologna.

We spent another week at home enjoying the good food of Romagna, before going back to Romania for the last 10 days there.

On the 10th of August we left Rimnicu Valcea and started our long drive back to Italy. The first part of journey took us to the town of Szeged in Hungary. We slept here until the following day. Here we enjoyed the hungarian food Gulash.

On the following morning we drove the rest of the journey to our town in Italy. Austria is always lovely, I love the way they build their houses.

Our journey back was to prepare for our move to Bangkok, but do you think my nomadic life will stop there? No, 4 days after our return to Italy it was time to drive to Germany and say hallo to my Kenyan friend who is studying there, my friend and I had been friends since our high school times in Kenya 91-94 and then in University where we took the same course 1997-2001. We separeted in 2001 when my friend and I separeted for our internship after our last year as (bachelor of science agricultural education graduates) 3 months after I got married and my friend did not have the opportunity to come. So our meeting in Germany has been a happy re-union.

Well, I have to stop here for today, I will finish this later and let you know what the move to Bangkok was like...