10 things that I love and miss about Bangkok- 4# making friends every day!

My mum always says that you can be in the middle of nowehere and still have an amazing time if you are there with wonderful people. So it is not the place, but people that make your experience memorable. I agree, but I have to admit I was lucky to have both: a fun place and cool people.I appreciate every single person I met here and I have strong emotions thinking of all the moments we have shared. When you have so many things in common, you are all far from home, you have similar goals and ways of spending spare time, the personality is set aside. You make friends with people that you wouldn’t appreciate in your own country. You have a big choice though, because Bangkok has a huge expat community and with a lot of them you have some friends in common or you already met somewhere (most likely on soi 11 ). You can’t get too close with them, otherwise you are going to suffer when they leave. And they will, sooner that you think. Time is flying so quickly in this crazy city that you won’t realize that is a time to say goodbye. You always promise you are going to visit each other and make reunions, then, usually you don’t. This is one of my first times when I believe, that with some of them I really will. If somehow you didn’t meet your mate in Bangkok yet, there are three sure places to make friends, full of backpackers and cool, open-minded people. If you’re looking for company, stay in Kao San Road, the area that never sleeps. An interesting fact about this part of the city is that it’s very hard to find local Thai people. This area is really dominated by tourists and expats, mostly because of the location (it’s quite far and not well connected to the rest of the city). The most central location, but still full of young people is Thonglo or Ekkamai. Here definitely you can meet Thai hipsters but also many expats living in Bangkok. Quite a lot of the more sophisticated places to go out and clubs to discover nightlife are in this area. The third spot to meet people is soi 11. Easy to get to and easy to go crazy, the most famous bar is Cheap Charlie’s with, as indicated by its name, cheap alcohol and a very casual atmosphere. Definitely no awkwardness to talk to strangers there! Besides those places, you have a lot of events, meetup groups, so its actually quite hard to feel lonely in this city 🙂