Bangkok is such a fast and furious city that one false move seems bound to result in disaster - but not necessarily. On our first morning, I forgot to remove my credit card from a hole-in-the-wall machine and went on my way.
Minutes later, two teenagers sprinted after me, one brandishing my piece of plastic as though it were the key to life. In London, I would have been the one doing the sprinting to prevent the finders-keepers brigade from cleaning up.
And that got me thinking. Take away the polite, honest and dignified people of this huge, sprawling metropolis and you might not be left with much to write home about. It's not especially pretty (not until you explore life in the canals or klongs), traffic is perpetually choked and at times much of the city is colonised by gap-year boys and girls as they set off on the well-worn route through Asia.
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