Bangkok: Mar 18: Departure

On Thursday, our last day in Bangkok, we had only the morning free before we needed to leave for our flight back to Hong Kong. Rather than attempt to rush a visit to someplace new and exciting--we'd already visited all the tourist destinations within a reasonable travel time of our hotel--we decided to have a large, leisurely brunch at the hotel, eating enough so that we'd survive until the plane fed us around dinnertime. The buffet was extensive (meats, cereals, pastries, congee, dim sum, the usual hot Western breakfast foods, fruits, roasted mushrooms, baked beans, pork with chili, veal sausage, etc.), but the food generally was only okay. I took many pictures of the food. It's a good thing we ate so much, as our plane took off over an hour late.

In Bangkok's international airport I noticed the baggage carts: in addition to having a hand-brake, they're magnetic, so you can let go of the cart when going up a ramp escalator and the cart won't roll away. A neat advance in technology.

As on the flight to Bangkok, our plane was almost empty. One section of the plane was entirely empty. Nevertheless, even in the sections with people, I rearranged to have a row of four to myself -- that's how few people there were.

Incidentally, Di Yin also took pictures this day. The link goes to her first picture from this day (picture #385). When you see a picture of captioned "Hello Hong Kong" (picture #410), you're done with her pictures for this trip. I'll link to her Hong Kong pictures in another post.