{"id":1677,"date":"2015-04-12T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T08:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2015-07-05T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:32:56","slug":"colours-of-old-town-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/colours-of-old-town-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Colours of Old Town Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent this year’s long Easter weekend in Bangkok. <\/strong>Returning to a place I have been before always feels special; however Bangkok being so vast and diverse, I did not cover much of\u00a0what I have previously seen and almost none of the usual tourist sites.\u00a0We spent most of\u00a0our time in Old Town Bangkok, not far from the river and wandering the\u00a0lanes off\u00a0from Samsen Road. It\u00a0felt a bit\u00a0like a trip back to old times and into a much more colourful world!<\/p>\n

We took our time to join a cooking class, to\u00a0wander the narrow streets and lanes, to\u00a0roam\u00a0local markets, to stop at street stalls and enjoy the little delights of Old Town Bangkok.<\/p>\n

We also included a day trip to Kanchanaburi, a\u00a0small and\u00a0historic-rich town where we visited the famous bridge over the River Kwai, the impressive WWII cemetery and an excellent museum before we walked the short but\u00a0beautiful heritage street, still intact with\u00a0houses dating back more than 100\u00a0years and\u00a0showcasing the\u00a0diverse influences that the town witnessed over the past century (Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, Japanese).<\/p>\n

At the end of\u00a0each day, delicious, fresh and spicy Thai food and replenishing Thai massages helped us gain back\u00a0our much needed\u00a0energy!<\/p>\n

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We spent this year’s long Easter weekend in Bangkok. Returning to a place I have been before always feels special; however Bangkok being so vast and diverse, I did not cover much of\u00a0what I have previously seen and almost none of the usual tourist sites.\u00a0We spent most of\u00a0our time in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,67,6,109],"tags":[74,73,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}