back in / devuelta en bangkok

coming from the more relaxed north getting back to bangkok was quite a shock. starting with a very unfriendly taxi-driver who knew every trick to rip me of and in the end didn´t drop me of where i wanted him to. in the end i had to pay way too much and still had to walk with all my luggage through the busy kao san road in the rain imagining a thousand different ways how to torture the taxi-driver ;)
i found a nice and cheap hostel where i dropped my stuff and went of to find a nice place to have dinner and a beer. by accident i pumped into some friends i had met in chang mai and ended up drinking whisky-cola and playing pool with them. the next day i went to see the gran place until my friend arnaud arrived from cambodia so we had one more day together before he had to go back to europe. we did a big shopping-turn through siam square and had a thai massage and a cool beer to end a very nice day.

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devuelta de la tranquilidad del norte bangkok me chocaba bastante. nada más llegar tenia que discutir con un taxista muy poco amable que se sabia todos los trucos para timar a los turistas. al final tenia pagarle una fortuna y aun asi no me dejaba en el sitio que habiamos acordado asi que tenia que ir andando en la lluvia con todo mi equipaje maldiciendo al taxista ;)
encontré un hostal agradable y barato donde deje mis cosas para salir y encontrar un sitio para cenar y una caña fría. en un restaurante coincidí con unos amigos de chang mai y acabamos tomando copas y jugando al billard. el siguiente día fui a ver el gran palace hasta la llegada de mi amigo arnaud desde cambodia. juntos nos fuimos de compras a siam square y recibimos un masaje thai y una cerveza para concluir un día muy agradable.