Israeli food | Chaos roaming the world

Such a lovely, cozy room

It is just too hot to do anything. Yesterday, before going out for dinner, we had a look at a guesthouse we saw on Agoda for the remaining two nights. Our current hotel was still overpriced and underwhelming and not even the WiFi was that good. The place we looked at was lovely – it had shared bathrooms, but those were spotless and just around the corner. The room itself was perfect for us. Cute, with AC and a flat screen TV, and most of all a very comfy bed. So we booked in till Sunday.

The most touristy street we found

Which leads us to today, the move day. We stuck out in the old room until it was check out time, shouldered our few bags and walked the 15 minutes to the new guesthouse. That was pretty much our day, really. After the slightly stressful time with dropping off the bike and the sightseeing yesterday; today, we just chilled. After Nina took a nap, we put the flat screen to good use with season 4 of the Great British Bake Off (no judging!).

Food wise, we were quite conservative. For lunch, we walked a bit further out to avoid westernised stuff and found a cool little stall at a street corner selling food kind of Padang style with mix and match rice and ready-made dishes. Dinner was even more conservative, with another trip to last night’s Israeli place.

Modern museum, modern picto-dudes

After having spent all of yesterday on putting Rocinante in her cage, today we wanted to see something of Bangkok. I’m kinda through with temples and royal palaces and Flo expressed similar feelings so the Museum of Siam it was.

The tuk-tuk driver was a bit of a gangster getting way too much money out of us “tourists” for a rather short ride. Arriving at 9.55am at the museum, we waited for 5min for it to open and were the first people in. Which turned out to be a blessing as we got to see the short movie and about two rooms before we were steam-rolled by school classes. There seemed to be about 5 classes on our heels. At one point, we decided to let them pass and stay back a bit but then more classes appeared and the noise level just couldn’t be helped.

Love the wall paper. A classic!

The Museum of Siam is quite new and interactive which made it a fun museum to experience. The English translations are good, giving you insights into the history of Siam, which was the countries name before becoming the nation state of Thailand. To be honest, Flo and I loved the “Thailand in the 70s” part the most as it was perfect for taking hilarious pictures.

After two hours, we left highly entertained to find some food. As the tuk-tuk fare here had cost us 150 baht (NZ$6), we decided to take our time and walk back to the hotel thus also seeing more of Bangkok. In theory, the plan was perfect and it also worked well in practice apart for the sun scorching down on our every step.

The open wasteland with the palace in the back

So we stuck to the shade of trees as long as they were available and were dearly disappointed when we crossed a “park” that consisted entirely of scorched brown grass. Makes no sense to have such an exposed space in this climate. That needs to be reserved for places like London where you happy about every ray of sunshine. =P

Cooling down again took some hours as there was no pool available and we headed out again for dinner this time to an Israeli restaurant. Getting some different flavours was so delicious! We shared a plate of falafel, hummus, chips and salad with a side of tzatziki with pita bread. So, so good! The tzatziki plate looked like it had been washed once we were through our meal…Flo made sure to get even the tiniest rest.

Flo actually decided to use some of the evening time to catch up with his family. Quite late, we then skyped with Lina and Michael as we’re gonna visit them soon after landing in Dubai. So exciting! Haven’t seen them in aaaaaaaaages (2 ½ years).