March 30, 2017
Another good breakfast, before heading out on our bicycles to find bike shops. We struck out again at 12:30 all the bike shops we found were closed!
We headed back to Velo Thailand. The women we spoke to yesterday, that spoke really good English was there. We asked her if she could pack the bicycles ready for the flight. Her concern was that she didn’t have boxes and she wasn’t keen on the idea of cutting the boxes she had. If the bikes get damaged because of the cut boxes, she didn’t want us to complain about the damage. Eventually she agreed that she would do \”surgery\” on her boxes if necessary.
We were limited with our options and if we had to pack them ourselves without proper bike boxes the bikes may get damaged anyway. Ralf would have to cut cardboard to make a box. Same, same.
She agreed to try and find boxes and if necessary to use the boxes she had. Ralf offered to pay for the service today – like I said she spoke really good English. She said “I have your bikes, I don’t think you are going anywhere, you will be back for them”
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We headed back to our hotel and passed a bakery. We went into pick up something for lunch. A French lady who was eating in the café told us this was the best place in Bangkok. She lives in Bangkok and this is the best place. The owner was trained by a Frenchman and is Japanese, what a combination Japanese French bakery in Thailand. OMG the choco-pain were to die for. We will be visiting there again.
We haven\’t seen very much graffiti on this trip. Of course we are now in a big city and we have spotted this, is it graffiti or art?
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We got back to the hotel sweaty and tired. I was feeling very lethargic today, Ralf suggested we relax for the day. We did, I updated the blog and we relaxed all afternoon.
We also found the hotel had a small used book library. I picked up the only English book and intend to have a nice time reading it over the next couple of days.
Hi Jacky and Ralf,
It seems to be very difficult and time consuming to get boxes for bicycles. Perhaps you should consider to get the CTC poly bike bags as we have. You are able to cycle straight to the airports and can pack the bicycles there. The bags are useful during riding as well. We wrote about them in our blog “Horror trip to Phuket” ( https://six-travel.com/blog/horrortrip-auf-phuket/ )
Enjoy your stay in Bangkok!
Ute & Eddy currently in a similar situation in Hanoi, “waiting” for the flight with our bicycles 🙂
We would use the poly bike bag, unfortunately Air Canada demands that you put the bikes in a box! We are hoping that the hotel in Incheon will keep the boxes for us while we cycle in South Korea so that we do not have to search for boxes in Seoul. Where are you headed next?
Looks and sounds like your having a great time. Those people really like bright colors. Pictures are great. Not too sure about you two on a scooter (not really looking like “Hell’s Angels”), need to work on your persona. Food looks and sounds good. The hotel I stayed in back in 1968 served “Koby” steaks. You could cut them with a fork, and “wow”they were good. Bakery items sure look good. Getting hungry just looking at the pictures. Enjoy rest of your time in Bangkok, and be safe.
We are enjoying Bangkok, although you really have to watch out for the scams. The French bakery was awesome, food is really good in Thailand. We are heading to South Korea on Monday the weather will be a bit of a shock to the system – going from 35+ to 15ish! It will be nice not to sleep with the air conditioning on all night. Koby steaks I think are from Korea, Ralf might have to try one while we are there.