TALES OF ASIA: Day 1

Finally comes the twilight of what seems to be the longest day of our lives. Although, I can't say for sure since day and night and time in general now seems like a myth someone once told me about.

There is supposed to be a complex system with concrete rules on how many sunsets you can have in a day? Fascinating!

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We left for Copenhagen airport 7.30 on the morning of March 6th.

There, we stayed for a couple of hours before starting our 12 hour flight to Bangkok. Straight way, no stops. And tickets from Norwegian only for $ 258 USD/pp (2200 sek). We thought it was almost too good to be true.

... Which, in a way, it was.

I present to you

MISTAKE NUMBER #1:

Not ordering food for a 12 hour flight 

WHAT DID WE (I) THINK?

Oh yeah... right. The prices for food were around 25 dollars. That's what we thought..
We were going to buy food in advance at the airport, that at least are tastier than the bland plane food, that's what we thought.
Of course we'll remember this little detail, we said to our selves.

Then you sleep 3,5 hours the night before the trip and are still running around looking for your favorite lipstick when the chaffeur, your mother, is honking outside. And everything you thought were so easy to remember when not in stress gets left behind (while a HUAWEI tablet that nobody packed magically appears in your backpack just before security a couple of hours later.)

The gist of this?
We bought sandwiches, on the plane, anyway.

Yeah we suck.

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There is actually a lot to have in mind when flying with Norweigan. I think I will make a post with tips especially for flying this specific airline, but that has to wait for now. 

We were of course starving when we finally arrived. Airport food are famous for being both overpriced and underseasoned, but we found a chinese/thai lunch place for 150฿ and honest to God, I don't think I've ever felt so good after eating.

Unfortunatly, we did not sleep much in the air. I had slept on the bus to the airport, but while I might have some kind of controlable narcolepsy, Jonathan is diagnosed with the opposite - the inability to sleep on planes, which in these voyant days might be considered a real handicap.

So satisfied but tired, our next mission was to find a WiFi hotspot so we could find a map to our hotel.
I don't know exactly which of these were our biggest mistake here, not to have just printscreened a map over the hotel's area, not to at least googled the closest BTS station, or simply the fact that

we went around Siam Square looking like tourists for over two hours.

Anyway...

MISTAKE NUMBER #2:

Not printscreening a map in advance/taking the BTS back and forth in vain/and putting our selves in this situation while overheated, tired and jetlaged

I thought the hotel were cituated close to Siam, so we headed that direction for finding WiFi. I knew Siam Paragon and Siam Center would have some kind of coffee shop with some kind of internet.
With that somewhat inadequate information, we decided to change train at Phaya Thai and ended up
here

with this

which might not be that bad, but at that time, all we/Jonathan wanted to do was to get rid of the big block of concrete we were dragging with us aka. our suitcases.

Finally having conection, we of course learned that we had went to far and had to go back to Phaya Thai. By that time we had wasted so much money on unnecessarities I almost gave up writing down every little baht we'd spent since it would only make me irritated.

We must have looked so confused he felt sorry for us, but a man approched us (first that day that didn't wanted to sell a spot in his taxi) and pointed out the direction. It was a five minute walk from Phaya Thai.  We were too hot and tired too feel stupid, so we just thanked him (five times sweden-style) and five minutes later, we had reached our hotel.

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So now we are in Bangkok, this amazing asian metropol, and what have we done so far?

Absolutely nothing. We took a stroll to the main street for some snacks and when we returned, we broke the jetlag-experts very first law and fell asleep.

Wild and crazy.

MONEY SPENT SO FAR: I'll have to come back with that...