Our first day day in Thailand was super nice, and started with a 25 min taxiride to our hotel. The flight arrived 1 hour late , but the again both imigration and bags was snappy.
The taxi drive was your standard mad man, he is hopefully just drunk – type of thing. Moving trough traffic as someone was chasing us.
The heat hit me line a fist in the face, 30 something plus and humidity in the gaga scales.
We have booked a few nights at the IBIS cose to the ricer, short walk from the Phra Sumen Fort. I’ve never been here before, last stays have been at the Sukunvit area – I would say that this place is mor nice, and very much more family friendley.
We where a bit early to the hotel, so we had to wait a couple of hours until the rooms where ready.. no worries, 20 hours on the road.. super hot.. sun.. beer-o-clock!! woho!
But…
Oh no! – what is this? And when did that poster come up? today? yesterday? who knows? No point in askimg, english skills in thailand is limited. We did some googling, and it turns out its election today – så all alcohol is banned until 1800. (only 6 hours to go! but still…)
We got some excelent juices and smoothies though, so we do not fret.
After a couple of hours shut-eye after the trip we hit the town and got some food, beer sales was on after a while to. happy days!
There are some strange rules related to alcohol.. Its illegal to sell between 1400 and 1700 because of the kids comming home from school. So to keep them from temptaion and bad influence – they shut down.. I cant see that rule helping out a lot 🙂 🙂 🙂 .. As for now, election day – no alcohol, we do the same type of thing in Norway.. cant see why
Prices on both beer and food are superkow, 20-30 NOK for both food and beer. Or might a bit more on a fancy smancy resturant type of thingy.
The dish on pic above was something new for me. It was deepfried flat rice noodles with thai basil leafs and pork, together with lots of chillies.
We roamed around, tasting the 5 week freedom we just started. had a few drinks (look at that cool picture i took, below)
We did not test a lot of street food – we will save this for tomorrow, a bit jetlagged today. And the whole bbq crocodile did not tempt me to much – i have tested that before and Im not a fan.. but.. it looked cool 🙂
Had to do a coconut 🙂
Nice day, nice area – but we will have to explore a bit more tomorrow. time for some hour sleep!