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Here I am in Bangkok, in the tourist district, for a short night. I'm starting again this Friday for Phuket. focus on Koh Yao Noi<\/a>, my first stop, in Phang Na Bay.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Airports: from Charles de Gaulle to Dubai<\/h2>\n

Undisputed travel on Emirates, via Dubai. Brand new airport, full of shops and services. As usual, our airport in Paris is struggling to support the comparison.<\/p>\n

In Dubai, wifi is free and free. Unlike Charles-de-Gaulle. There's wifi, yes ... But the rates are prohibitive: it starts at 6 \u20ac per half hour. No comment.<\/p>\n

But this night take-off allowed me to admire the lights of Paris.<\/p>\n

\"Paris<\/a>
Paris by night ... We even see the illuminated Eiffel Tower!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Service and comfort top on Emirates. The first plane is not so full. Almost all eco-class passengers were able to lie on vacant seats and sleep a bit.<\/p>\n

To report anyway, an interesting novelty, at the TGV station of Charles-de-Gaulle airport: there is now a large luminous table with all flights departing, which indicates the corresponding terminal to know where to go. It was time for the signage to improve a bit ...<\/p>\n

Bangkok: return to Kao San Road<\/h2>\n

Tonight I'm in the tourist district in Bangkok, I'm staying in New Siam I<\/a>, in the street that extends Kao San Road.<\/p>\n

The area is not authentic at all, but it is convenient when you only have one night to go. There is everything on site: bars and restaurants, guesthouses, mini market 7\/11 for shopping menus, internet connections.<\/p>\n

\"Bangkok,<\/a>
Bangkok, the tourist district, night. Thailand, February 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I still find with pleasure this funny atmosphere, between the vendors of everything in the street, the small restaurants at night with their tiny plastic chairs, the\u00a0farangs<\/em> (strangers) who hang the tong on the asphalt. The smiles here are mostly commercial, but who cares?<\/p>\n

And then it amuses me to notice again these little details which tomorrow, already, will not draw me the eye any more:<\/p>\n

- The lanterns and garlands everywhere in the restaurants, which give the impression that it is Christmas whenever the night falls;
\n- the loud tuk-tuk that sneaks all over the narrow "ones" (alleys);
\n- carriages of itinerant soup vendors which whet the appetite;
\n- rolls of PQ in their small plastic boxes that serve as napkins on restaurant tables;
\n- the inevitable beggar-singer-blind with his creaky sono;
\n- the first mosquito trying to eat my calf;
\nMotorcycles overloaded with bundles of vegetables overflowing everywhere;
\n- the taxi-meter<\/em> pink-purple and green-yellow, which are on the watch for the client;
\n- the sweet taste of yellow mangoes;
\n- the backpackers<\/em> improvident who parade with their big bags and find "full" signs everywhere;
\n- small altars with their offerings in every trade ...<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/a>
It's Christmas every night on the terrace of the New Siam I, with its lanterns and garlands. Bangkok, Thailand, February 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A small altar with its offerings, in the tourist district, in Bangkok. Thailand, February 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My taxi driver dropped me in front of the guesthouse despite the narrow street.<\/p>\n

He spoke poor English and just managed to ask me\u00a0\"Where do you come from?\"<\/em>\u00a0I almost answered \"perancis\" <\/em>since the Indonesian comes to me more easily, and quickly rectified in \"farangset\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It pleased him, Mr.Tongsat, my driver. \"Farangset is good!\"<\/em>\u00a0he told me, thumbs up. I agree.<\/p>\n

???? ????<\/p>\n

Hidden somewhere in the roof above the terrace of my guesthouse, a gecko cheerfully sputters. I like the chuckling of the gecko, the evening at the time of the cool Singha ...<\/p>\n

This is a sign that I came back to latitudes that I like.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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