We arrived in Bangkok today at 6:30am (Wednesday). We left home at 5:30 Edmonton time on Monday. We flew to Vancouver and boarded our 16.5 hour flight to Bangkok around 11:05 pm. We survived the journey well but somehow we missed Tuesday altogether. The business class seats allowed us to lay flat to sleep. The food was excellent and I got to watch almost all of season 1 of The Pitt. Our Air B&B arranged for us to be picked up at the airport and our blinged out van took us into the Bang Rak district of the city.

Our Air B&B is lovely. It has 5 rooms on 4 floors. We managed to bring our luggage up all the stairs and then we went searching for food. We headed down a side street and found this lovely establishment that had room for us.

The food was delicious and the beer was definitely a highlight.

We wandered to the river to scope out options for tomorrow’s travels then returned to our suites to have a nap. We learned that the King’s mother had passed away recently and there were tributes to her across the country and many of the federal buildings were draped with black and white banners to show mourning. We were conscious of the need to shift into our new time zone so we all pledged to stay awake until at least 9pm local time. We all had naps and then walked down to Chinatown for our pre-dinner stroll. The weather here is hot and humid with the temperature hitting 35C.

We found a local restaurant for supper. The 6 of us had 5 different versions of Pad Thai. The food was excellent and now we have all crashed in our air conditioned rooms with a plan for a good night’s rest. The “we” I refer to on this trip are Greg, Jane, Jacquie, Brian and Dale. We will meet up with our tour group from Road Scholar on Monday and travel through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.