A Night In The Life by the Bangkok Bad Boy

July 1, 2008

Friday night, although it included a couple of new venues for me, was really just another night in Bangkok. A pretty good one, but nothing spectacular. I was trying to describe it to a friend in the UK recently, and the difference between what we both considered “just another night” inspired me to actually write this one up.

Things got going at around 7pm, which is a fair bit earlier than usual. I was meeting a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while. We’ll call him Ernie. We didn’t have much of a plan, but we figured we’d meet for beers in the Big Mango. After a quick beer, and a couple of brief chats with a couple of fellow bloggers, we decide to wander down Soi 4 to Big Dogs or Lucky Luke’s to watch the world go by and figure out what we were going to do.

We wandered down Soi 4. Ernie realised that he’d never had a beer at the Golden, but he’d have to wait – it was packed, with nowhere to sit. On to Big Dogs, and it was the same situation. A pretty busy Friday night on Soi 4. Instead, we walked down to Morning Night, where I hadn’t been for ages.
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