we're a family of three who love to travel in 2019v we use my maternity leave to
travel the world visiting some incredible places and making unforgettable memories
we've kind of been on the moon since then until recently i got a job teaching in
singapore and now we're lucky enough to call the red dot our form for the next two years
we really look forward to sharing our asian adventures with you hi everybody welcome back to
gemma and george it has been a while since we've posted a video if you're new here my name's gemma
this is george and nathan's behind on the camera and we're a family of three that love to travel
and we've been in singapore almost for one year now and today we are about to backpack
around asia for four weeks okay let's get ready shoes on please george
this bag nathan's had for 10 years maybe 20. it's a new zealand brand called macpac
and as you can see it's just slipping in all the straps and things zipping so that it's easy and
tidy when you're traveling you're hungry don't you worry i've got you a sandwich in my bag happy now
so let's rewind a little bit it's august 2022 what we've been doing since december
when we last posted we've just been living our life we've been getting george settled into
singapore life we've been running our business we've had a cheeky trip over to phuket in april
and now we're in the six week holidays we've done a full year of international teaching
we're ready with our backpack to go out there and explore main idea and concept of this trip is for
us to re-experience what it was like freestyling before we became parents we've got one backpack
there's the two of us we've got georgie's three and a half now we've got one flight booked into
bangkok which we're doing today we're just at the jewel as you can see behind me waiting and then
we're going to fly out of hanoi in vietnam and the rest we're going to make up as we're going
along we definitely think that we want to go into cambodia we definitely want to go and check out
the mekong river and hopefully everything will be fine and but we're really looking forward to
getting out there and having an adventure again and we kind of think that this time
on this trip george will be able to remember some of the experiences that we have now as a family
we've made it to bangkok a really short simple flight and now we're just going to get ourselves
a taxi we have booked our first night's accommodation as you can see nathan's just
finding getting a ticket so what they do here at bangkok airport is you come through
and they give tickets out and then you just find your taxi ticket number and you just jump straight
into your taxi and then you're off as you can see there there's numbers for each of the taxis and
the taxes go all the way down the lane and it's just to keep it fair for all of the taxi drivers
we read somewhere that you don't have to wear masks anymore only if you're in crowded areas
so we're just keeping our masks on right now until we figure out what the actual rules are
but hopefully we don't have to wear masks
all checked in we're staying here for two nights and that just allows
us tonight because it's quite late now we're getting a little bit tired after travel day
and then we could go out and explore tomorrow before figuring out where we're gonna go to next
first world problems there for you traveling with a three and a half year old morning we are
going to head to a temple called watford and we're going to try and get there using public transport
thank you to google maps which is a really handy tool to use when you're traveling
um using their maps it says that it's a 39-minute ride on the mrt and then a
six-minute walk so hopefully that's true blue 31. so just got to figure out how we get tickets now
how many tickets the bathroom yeah we're just trying to get tickets now
so it's cash only at the self-serve machines or
you can go over to the main desk where they'll help you
they're our train tickets so you don't get physical tickets you get plastic
circles okay so they've got turn styles and then i think you just tap it here
nope where do i tap it here aha and we're through
nine stops really simple to navigate thanks to google maps
you know it's back on because there's toy buses everywhere
it's 400 200 per person this is thai bot okay george is free thank you very much
this is the reclining buddha it is massive to get into the temple
you must take your shoes off from barefoot no hats allowed you have to have your shoulders
covered nathan's brought his trousers with him and he's got his trousers on to cover up your knees
what are the temple you are expected to put donations in
we're gonna do we're gonna put this one in here and we're gonna get a couple little ones
okay so this feels like blackpool the 2p machine
we're going to head back to the hotel now it's really really hot
i definitely recommend bringing your own water but the temple itself is going through quite
a lot of renovations i think because it's been closed due to corvid it's quite small
as well in comparison to the grand palace but nonetheless really nice lots of nice
archways and temples and a lot quieter so you've got more ground to cover yourselves
have you had a nice time so now we're just going to catch the mrt back jump in the pool for a
few hours a little bit of downtime and then we're going to go out and check out bangkok this evening
just heading out we're going to try and find somewhere to grab
about to eat keep it nice and cheap and cheerful
there's plenty of places to eat as well as street food
we've just headed into one of the malls here and then we've come to the basement section
and it's a blend of like western and then at the back they've got hawker centres
or the equivalent of them cheap and cheerful bit of a booming atmosphere and lots from
these are some of the independent vendors you tap your card up and then you pay on here with
your token so you can mix and match any of the food that you want to that's on offer
think of thailand at night time is it cool yeah i like bangkok bangkok really is a melting pot
of lots of different things you've got the modern malls you've got the expensive malls
tiffany dior gucci you've got the street vendors you've got your beggars you've got your taxis
your buses it's just really quite chaotic and as you can imagine with a child and you know you've
got to have your wits about you constantly but it is worth exploring and coming here
as a family we're only going to stay for 24 hours because for us it is quite overwhelming
and i think after clothing with all the new travelers coming in masks no masks it is an
absolute smack in the face in terms of sensation chaos in a really cool vibrant intense wind
one of many things to love about bangkok is the shops that you'll just find on the side of the
streets this is a huge fruit shop and you'll find there's lots of vendors independent on the
side of the street so you can just pick up some chicken shrimp fish anything really cockroaches
if that's your flavor scorpions i think once we managed to find where we're in patia but right now
we're just going to get some fruit you want this one is it too big or do you want the little one
this one sure where's your money your money's gone uh oh you need to give the lady some money
oh it's chasey
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