I thought that the least I could do was publish a picture of my one evening shared with buddies! Yes, Vaios and Angelo did not give up a one hour search through the very busy, polluted region of the Patpong Night Market.
We met at 7, one hour after our intended meeting time. It was a significant challenge trying to find each other on this busy street - it was unbelievable how many guys look like Vaios and Ang - I know it sounds crazy! We did meet, had a beer in the touristy, upsetting red-light district of Patpong Market. Decided that it was definitely not a place to have dinner, we continued onward in search of a restaurant that would feed three starving Canadians!
After some time of catching up and story telling, we headed, by tuk-tuk to the Khao San Road region - just steps from my hotel. Boy was I in good hands with these lads - it was so nice to see them. We staggered around the night market a while, all the time Vaios was negotiating prices for jeans - just practising and doing research for his big purchases at the end of their trip.
As we sat and had some fruit, they planned a ride back to their hotel in Sukumvit. Bargaining hard with a very suave (if there is such an individual) tuk-tuk driver, they got the deal they wanted. The driver waited patiently, sending us nods and smiles as we sat enjoying fruit tossed in spices.
Eventually we hugged good night, they are off to Koh Chang (a small island on the east side of Thailand) and I am off to Chaing Mai. My last sight of them was their tuk-tuk driver "popping a wheelie" as they scouted off into the traffic!
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