Madrid + Thailand: day 1

There we go, leaving for my two months of travelling on my own.

Plaza Mayor

I get dropped off at the trainstation in Alicante by my grandparents, because they had to go to Alicante anyway. There I find the people who would be taking me to Madrid, a couple from San Vicente which where going to Madrid and made a BlaBlaCar advert for it, the funny thing is, as we start to talk I find out that they are going to Bangkok as well, and decided, just like me, to spend a night in Madrid to have less of a hassle during they day of the flight.

Anyway, I get to Madrid and start looking for the hostel, which I found pretty quickly. I check everything in and decide to go and have a look around the city.

The weather was awful, it was raining slightly and cold, I wandered without a real objective in Madrid and found a few famous places, the Plaza mayor, the Basilica de san Miguel and a few more places.

Morning arrives and I get the underground to the airport, check in and go through to the gate, and look at that, another A-380, awesome, and even more when I find out that this one has wifi on board! you should have seen it, the whole upper floor was ment for first class and business, and it looked incredible, the first class had it's personal bathrooms with showers and everything, a masseuse, a bar, heck, everything you can imagine.

After travelling for 22 hours (with the time changes included) I finally land in Bangkok, I get myself a sim card to have internet during my stay (and use Google maps,, I'm not gona lie) and leave to my Hostal, I take the first underground from the airport to Phaya Thai, the centre, here I change to the SkyTrain and head towards my hostel. After dropping everything off and taking a much needed shower I head towards the city to explore, my plan was to go towards the weekend market, but I got distracted on my way, and heck, I would have time tomorrow to visit it. What I found especially amazing is how during the day you see tons and tons of souvenir and amulets shops. But as soon as the sun sets this changes drastically, every store that you see takes out a portable kitchen, some tables and starts serving food like any regular restaurant. After having a nice pad thai I head towards the hostel to get some well deserved rest.