The most recent adventure was this past weekend to Bangkok. Why Bangkok, why only a weekend you might ask. The answer to the first question is that it is the month of Ramadan and Doha is a little too quiet. The second is that my friend was going to be there for a couple days before traveling out to the South to Kho Samui and there was a frequent flyer mile ticket available. A few weeks ago the conversation went something like “Oh… your are going to be just hanging out in Bangkok for the weekend? It would be fun to come out…I wonder if there are award tickets available? Hey, there are.. might as well go ahead and book it.” And so the deal was sealed in ~5minutes.

I left work on a Thursday night at caught an 8:30 pm overnight flight that got in at ~7am the next morning. Unphased, my friend and I dropped bags at the hotel and the wandered around Bangkok for the better part of 7 hours. Some of the sights of note were the car/scooter repair neighborhood, where men with mallets bang on old auto parts that seem to have already served twice their useful life…..


Chinatown….

Lots and lots of Wats…

And some very creepy statues.

After an evening out and a morning that was mostly squandered on sleep (blame it on the jetlag) we went out to the weekend market which is a seemingly endless maze of tiny shops selling everything from souvenirs to pets and clothes to little dried fish crumbles. Pretty good place to pass most of the day.

After another night out and about 2.5 hours of sleep, it was time to catch my 6am cab to the airport. Slept a little on the plane and with the time change, arrived in Doha mid-morning Sunday, then rolled straight into work for a full day. Quite the whirlwind tour, but a great quick escape during Ramadan