My five days in Bangkok flew bye and I only managed to see a few of the places I had on my list - the Royal Palace and the big gold lying down budda were pretty impressive. It was quite hot, there were lots of people and it is not really a city to wonder around at leisure so I bought a one-day boat pass for two of the days and enjoyed going up and down the river seeing the sights. The longboats you can hire looked like fun and I loved all the the activity that goes on up and down the river. It was actually the King's Birthday while I was there so the river was closed off on the Saturday in prepartation for the celebrations that night. The range of eating places here was also amazing - the seafood fried rice that I had in a little place next to the Chong Nonsi skytrain stop was fantastic and I had a couple more great meals a two doors down at Lek's seafood. Across the road at the other entrance to the skytrain was a newly opened Dean and Deluca where all the trendy people (including me on one occassion) were hanging out in the weekend and I imagine it is filled with business types during the week.
The cooking school was probably the hightlight of my stay in Bangkok. It was great to go to the local market and then cook up some very yummy dishes. I look forward to cooking a meal fo you all at some stage.
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