Guys, we are in Bangkok!!
After four hard days skating on hilly highways, through huge industrial areas with "ready built factories" for rent, next to heavy duty lorries (which accelerated you a bit with their draft if they passed near enough), along hundreds of pick-up-cars of Thais enjoying Saturday at the sea, and today also through Thailand's most beautiful parts: bright green rice paddies with small rural villages and nice people honking and waving. All that agaist head wind (yes, my last kilometers skating were more challenge then sweet dessert).
We almost were done with the Thai skate leg in a city called Lat Krabang but decided then to do the extra 10 kilometers until we reach the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. That sounded more like Bangkok city and it really was, as we skated through busy suburbs to get there, crowded with the rushhour traffic.
And now we're sitting in a super relaxing guesthouse in Bangkok, salty, dirty from head to toe and tired but happy.
After four hard days skating on hilly highways, through huge industrial areas with "ready built factories" for rent, next to heavy duty lorries (which accelerated you a bit with their draft if they passed near enough), along hundreds of pick-up-cars of Thais enjoying Saturday at the sea, and today also through Thailand's most beautiful parts: bright green rice paddies with small rural villages and nice people honking and waving. All that agaist head wind (yes, my last kilometers skating were more challenge then sweet dessert).
We almost were done with the Thai skate leg in a city called Lat Krabang but decided then to do the extra 10 kilometers until we reach the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. That sounded more like Bangkok city and it really was, as we skated through busy suburbs to get there, crowded with the rushhour traffic.
And now we're sitting in a super relaxing guesthouse in Bangkok, salty, dirty from head to toe and tired but happy.
Skating Thailand was various. We had both perfect and nearly unskateable streets. Nicest seaside and ugliest industry. Rural roads and 5-lanes highways.
But always very friendly and animating people, even the police wanted to take pictures with us instead of guiding the traffic. We ate the perfect papaya salad in a cozy restaurant during our siesta, one of Thailand's national meals. Another one, sticky rice pudding stuffed into a bamboo tube, brought me an unwanted surprise: as it was already dark when we ate it before dinner, I didn't recognized the frog which shouldn't have been in there (it tasted most of all bitter). The frog also included its last meal, another cricket, which, this time, didn't taste crispy and fried...
Except of one evening, in the godforsaken ugliness of the backland of Pattaya, we always found a Wat, where the monks kindly let us camp and use their toilettries (a real luxury after a hot day transpirating about 3 litres). We never had any incidents with snakes, even tough we saw a lot flattened ones an the street. One was massive, about three meters long! Afterwards we regretted not having cut out a piece of the muscle meat for dinner...
Thanks (whatever) God, we also haven't been bitten by one of the lots of fierce dogs that attacked us.
But always very friendly and animating people, even the police wanted to take pictures with us instead of guiding the traffic. We ate the perfect papaya salad in a cozy restaurant during our siesta, one of Thailand's national meals. Another one, sticky rice pudding stuffed into a bamboo tube, brought me an unwanted surprise: as it was already dark when we ate it before dinner, I didn't recognized the frog which shouldn't have been in there (it tasted most of all bitter). The frog also included its last meal, another cricket, which, this time, didn't taste crispy and fried...
Except of one evening, in the godforsaken ugliness of the backland of Pattaya, we always found a Wat, where the monks kindly let us camp and use their toilettries (a real luxury after a hot day transpirating about 3 litres). We never had any incidents with snakes, even tough we saw a lot flattened ones an the street. One was massive, about three meters long! Afterwards we regretted not having cut out a piece of the muscle meat for dinner...
Thanks (whatever) God, we also haven't been bitten by one of the lots of fierce dogs that attacked us.
So that was it, my (not so-) longdistance skateboarding. I let Robert pushing the rest of the world without me to wait for, so that he sooner is done with all and comes home (-;
see you soon
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