Bangkok was getting on my nerves.There was nothing for me to do but to wait for my girlfriend to come. I did a lot of sightseeing on my previous visits to Bangkok already and it was to hot for such activities anyway. But my girlfriend was going to come today and we made an appointment for the evening at a Thai restaurant we had been before at Pra Athid road nearby. This left me time to get our train tickets at the travel agency. 2 tickets second class sleeper,lower berth- perfect! Most unexperienced travellers tend to take the upper berth, which is a mistake. It's worth paying a few extra Baht for the lower berth as it's less hot and you have more space. Volker,a German friend who organizes tours for handicapped tourists in Thailand and other parts of the world contacted me via myspace. We swapped mobile numbers and he told me he was going to take an overnight bus from Chiang Mai and we decided to meet the next day. We weren't sure yet where to meet though.
I was getting nervous...
I hadn't seen my girlfriend for a long time and I was looking forward to seeing her again very much. In fact she was the main reason I came back. The restaurant we decided to meet wasn't at it's old site anymore but moved a few houses further. Things change quickly in Asia. Sometimes coming back to a place I had been before a couple of years ago I could hardly recognize it anymore...
We should meet at 6pm, it was a few minutes past 6 but I couldn't see her anywhere" so I decided to call her.
ไม่ต้องโท," mai tong to"- u ddon't need to call a familiar voice said. She was standing right in front of me. Not having seen her for months, which seemed like ages I was flashed by her beauty. I wished to hug and kiss her right away but I knew I couldn't . According to Thai customs it is not usual for couples to show their affection in public and she is quite old-fashioned in that point. She didn't come alone either, her sister came with her to help her carry the luggage. I welcomed them and we had dinner together at the restaurant. Unfortunately the food wasn't as delicious as it had been before at the old location but I really didn't care about the food now.
After dinner and a chat her sister took a bus back home and we walked back to the guesthouse to store her luggage. A little bit later when we had a stroll along Soi Rambutrii someone called me "Christian"- it was Volker, who I wanted to meet the next day. His guesthouse was just around the corner. I can't remember why he came early. We had a long chat and a couple of beers at a bar nearby. After that, he showed us a nice spot along the river to watch the sunset and some Thai people doing Aerobics. That's a funny sight I tell you! They are quite serious about it. Volker also recommended a restaurant to us where they sold rotee- that's something like a thin pancake.
The rotee place from outside looked a bit run down and it was very narrow inside even according to Asian standards. But from the long queue of Thai people you could assume that they sold delicious food there.
And they did!!! Rotees of all kinds: not only the sweet ones with chocolate or banana that you can find in any tourist place but rotees with Massaman curry and all kinds of flavors. It wasn't expensive either, a few Baht more than the food they sold at the food stalls around Khao San road but not more than the uninspired food all the guesthouses sold there.
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