My journey across Asia — Bangkok Part I

Thai dentist, Thai massage and Thai toilet paper

Stephan Piriwe
3 min readDec 22, 2015

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I woke up — got ready and started off to the dentist. Two days before I arranged with Sam to see a dentist. Oral hygiene were quite cheap compared to Austria and my teeth undoubtedly needed cleaning (No, I won’t post any before/after pics). The dentist was not far away so I walked along the busy street to doctor’s office. The dentist was very kind and did her job very well. They were very well-equipped and I went out with smile on my face.

…I came across a cleaning mop presentation.

Then I went into a shopping mall next to the place. It must have lately opened. Everthing looked really new and reminded my very much of Austria. I entered a supermarket and when I was going along the aisles I came across a cleaning mop presentation. Two gorgeous-looking ladies were presenting and I wondered whether the men, who had gathered around them, were actually interested in the product or just marvelling at them.

I bought two bottles of water and kept strolling around shopping mall. Interesting fact: I paid four euros for two scoops of ice cream — I dropped them by mistake. Fortunately, they were so kind and replaced it without charging.

shopping mall
My favourite toilet paper. Treats me like a princess — miaow.

Later on I found myself in a district where probably no tourists had been before. You could tell from the locals look that seldom foreigner had come around. My landlord recommended me to go there since there was a good massage salon. (Yes, I went a second time within two days — I am really into it.) So I went past plenty of food stalls, running children and the vibrant movement of all the motorcycles which were overtaking me. I didn’t know accurately the meusseuse’s place and so I asked a hair cutter the way. However she didn’t understand and as I was turning around to carry on searching, she gave me a sign and dissapeared in a room next to the salon. In the meanwhile I was wondering what she was doing.

Food stall, where I had my meal

After a while, an eldery came out of the room, seemed he had just slept and told me the way in broken English. I felt a bit bad of waking him up. Then finally I reached the massage salon and a small guy massaged me by using also his feed treading on my back. I had never felt such a pain for one hour!

I had never felt such a pain for one hour!

Feeling pain and relief in my entire body I moved to a food stall and had a delicious meal. After having finished eating I went back to the apartment and got ready for going to the airport.

The taxi driver had installed his smart phone on the middle console and a Michael Jackson concert was playing. I got on my plane after eight hours transfered in Abu Dhabi and slept the whole flight to Vienna.

Hi Vienna, bye Asia — It has been a pleasure.

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Stephan Piriwe

Hi, I’m an Austrian who went to different places around the world. Now I want to share some of my stories with you. I will publish a story once in a while.