Last Days of Thailand

My last days in Thailand are quite a blur. This is probably a good thing given that I would like to forget a lot of what transpired.

All in all though, I will miss Thailand. I must say that I think I really hit my stride in the final weekend/week. I bought a basketball and balled with the local Bangkokians, finally feeling more at home and not just like some guest in a hotel. My Thai and game spitting ability to Thai girls who speak very little english peaked. I basically got to the point where Thai people believed I spoke Thai and that I was lying to them when I said I couldn't. I even went on a date with a Thai girl who didn't speak English and it was enjoyable. I still felt a little like I was hanging out with a crow but at least this crow could show me around her nest. Pun intended. If crows actually have nests...

I am still trying to piece together the final night in Bangkok. I will probably have to write a separate blog about it, since it is quite blogworthy. However, I will say now that it ended in me getting maybe 30 minutes of sleep and leaving for the airport very late for my flight...I spent the first half of my 10 hour flight to Helsinki in a drunken sleep. Then I woke up, ate, popped a xanzibar and spent the rest of the flight drooling on my shoulder. As luck would have it I sat directly next to a really hot Finnish girl who wanted nothing to do with me and the alcohol seeping out of my pores.

Anyway, I have arrived in Amsterdam and it is nothing like Bangkok. I feel like I'm living in the countryside. If the countryside had a faint smell of weed and a lot of extremely tall people riding bikes everywhere.

I live in an apartment on a street called Plantage Muidergracht. It is just down the street from the Artis Zoo and the Waterloopen. Just a stones throw away from Stadhouderskade and Utrechtsestraat. I hear it is really quite a lovely place to live. Much better than Spiegelkwartier.

PS - names of things here are hilarious.