I've been in Bangkok for a week now, and have been having a fabulous time. I met up with a friend, Sophie, straightaway, and we've been eating our way through Bangkok. The food is amazing. We don't know what half the stuff is, but that just makes it all the more fun. We eat at street stalls - $1 a meal, the difference between here and home is extreme - though we did make the mistake one night of going to an Italian restaurant and it was gross. The street vendors seem to understand me when I say in Thai that I'm vegetarian - last night, the woman got me a broth from somewhere else, who knows where, because the broth she was using was meat-based - and there's often a friendly English speaker around who'll
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