This is not just a guide to the city itself. 

It’s also a journal of people, places and 

experiences. 

Our top picks all around the clock. 

Doesn’t matter if you’ve only 

got a day, a week or a whole month. 

We all like to know what to do without 

having to dig into research first.

Check how we prepared the ebook. 

Download a few pages as a sample.

In February 2023 we came to Bangkok. We rented a flat, then a bike and that’s how we turned over a new leaf of living in the best city in the world. We’d been here many times before and yet we had never considered staying put for a few months at a time. Taking the leap and living here for a good chunk of time was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made.

Bangkok Stories is a collection of 65 carefully selected spots, woven together as a journal of stories and anecdotes that reflect our intimate experience of the city. Through observations, interviews and personal impressions, we’ve done our best to reveal the depth and wonder of the city’s customs and culture.

What you'll get in this guide: tips on finding an apartment to rent in an old Chinese house, a café that serves the best iced coffee with a splash of tangerine, a tea shop that's been in the family for four generations, street-cart broth served with homemade noodles, evening stalls serving perfect prawns and world-class restaurants where bright, young chefs serve the most exciting new dishes. Then there is a host of unusual museums, hidden bookshops, modern libraries and co-working spaces. Temples, parks, cemeteries and all sorts of markets – where you can get everything from flowers and food to fashion and good luck charms. This guide tells you where to go for live music and where the best techno parties are hosted. Where to find a boat to travel down the canals and where to ride a bicycle. And, of course, where to get the best mango sticky rice in town. We crack the conundrum of whether Pad Thai is the nation’s traditional dish and how it is that in a country where it is illegal to gamble, everyone plays in the government lottery… You’ll find out if the Minister of Health has made marijuana legal and, most intriguing perhaps, why there is a plastic bag of soup on display in one of the city’s famous museums. This guide reveals all our favorite bits of Bangkok and we hope you will come to love it as much as we do.  

For the past ten years, Paweł (aka Spider) and I have been spending six months out of the year traveling the world. In that time, we’ve visited almost 80 countries, making some of them home for extended stretches. Other times, we’ve indulged in just a few days of adventure. We remember every one of our trips and each of these incredible places. We’ve backpacked through Southeast Asia, falling in love with Myanmar, getting enchanted by India. In Central America, we traveled from Mexico to Panama, in South America from Colombia to the tip of Peru. We made it to Morocco in a classic forty-year-old camper, which functioned as home for three months, before moving on to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, learning, among other things, all about Ramadan. We’ve loved Tanzania and we’ve also delved deeper into Europe, from northern Lapland to Portugal’s Alentejo coast. And we even had the chance to rediscover our own country, travelling through Poland during the pandemic.

We try not to get attached to the places we visit because our goal is to keep it moving. We have an unquenchable thirst for change and stimuli to fuel our imaginations. We have learned to live day b​y day, caring for each and every environment we happen to find ourselves in. We’ve explored cultures we’d known of, but that we actually didn’t know much about. And we have continued to discover that the world is bigger than we ever thought. So we keep on going – driving, cooking, cleaning, dancing, reading and chatting to everyone.

Lena Urbanska
Pawel Pajaczkowski

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