Bangkok #1

What is the probability that you will get a common layover together with your best friend in a company that employs about 6,000 stewards and stewardesses? The truth is more than miserable … But what seemed so unrealistic, eventually happened. When I see in my roster that the closest two layovers in Bangkok I’m having with Veronica, I’m jumping two meters high for joy. Bangkok ?! With Veronica ?! This combination of circumstances promises to be more than just an excursion …

Cabbage a condoms

After arriving to the hotel, most of the crew go to bed to catch up sleeping after the night flight, but me and Hajjar from Morocco decide not to waste a time. We stop the taxi and tell the driver to take us “somewhere in the center of action”. Hajjar heard that shopping is great in Bangkok, so we’re heading straight to the shopping malls. Once I promised to my boyfriend that I would bring him souvenir from every destination. At least I can “get off” my promise right at the beginning. After two hours of strolling, we go to the small salon for a deserved leg massage. Price for 60 minutes: about 5 Euros! At eight o’clock we are already waiting in the hotel lobby where we meet the rest of the crew, even stewards and stewardesses from the flight, who had landed in Bangkok a few hours after us. Among them is, of course, Veronica, which I have been impatiently waiting for. Thanks to us, two crews joined together. I have never seen such a big aggregation! The captain orders a super-sized taxi for 15 people and together we go for the true Thai dinner. The restaurant that the captain chose has not only the funny name – Cabbage and Condoms, but also design. There are funny pictures on the walls with a sexual theme, and in the entrance hall we have a mannequin in the clothes made of used condoms. Even Santa Condom! I order traditional rice dish Pad Thai and Tom Yum soup, which could be also called as Tom Yummy! Most of all I like Veronica’s Chicken Satay (chicken skewers) with peanut sauce and Kai’s Thai tea with sweet condensed milk. With the bill everyone instead of menthol candy was given a package of condoms. After a delicious dinner, most of us go for a drink to some bar while me and Veronica prefer to go sleep. For the next day we have big plans…

Floating market

We are meeting at breakfast at seven o’clock and at eight taxi driver already waits us to drive us to the well known Floating Market. Something you really need to see when you are in Bangkok. It’s a market that really floats on the river. Every salesperson who has something to offer sails along the river while the shoppers stand on the coast and look around for the floating goods. Eventually, they are also paddling on the river among vendors. We choose the way on the water, too. You can buy anything on the river: bananas, fish, coconuts, flowers, artwork, t-shirts, Thai hats, Buddha statues and other souvenirs. The fruit you buy here tastes completely different from what you’re used to at home. Bananas (though tiny) are sweeter, mango more succulent. After an hour and a half of boating and shopping we can still get to the nearby elephant village. Just a Facebook photo of one of my friends riding an elephant brought me to the profession of flight attendant. I also wanted to travel around the world and have photos with an elephant! And today I have finally fulfilled my dream!