BKK

Bangkok is hot, smoggy and humid.  It has a funk to it, nothing like the pungent assault of Delhi or Mumbai but still you don't want to linger too long by the sewage grates. The mix of modern shiny windowed skyscrapers and decrepit, foliage strewn old low rises makes for a fascinating urban sprawl, something that happened over time rather than as the result of a plan.





I'm enjoying my first coconut in the midday heat, it's delicious and vital, so different from the canned stuff I drink at home.


The pace of life on the street is less frenetic than I was expecting. I adjusted the speed I was walking, not quite to a late summer Montreal saunter but close to it. 

Today I have low expectations of myself. Picked up a sim card for my phone and going for a massage and a nap to shake off the jetlag. Tonight I will explore the bar scene local to my hotel in Nana.

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