This is the kind of night you regret not having your camera with you. Or not…

All the pictures comes from the camera of people at the party. Thank you guys!

  
When I was working at The Pure Evil Gallery in London, I met a bunch of really cool people. It was two years ago, I think it was my first week in London and I was a bit lost because my English were not perfect and London was like you imagine, foggy and cold. I had three days to pack my stuff after my trip in Iceland and move in a city were I knew nobody. It was a new life for me and most of all, it was my first real job. That day, my colleague Molly invited me for dinner with one of her friend, a graffiti legend, that she met while working at the gallery. 

At 6pm, a giant, or maybe a viking entered the gallery and start talking to me with this great east Londoner accent and maybe a bit of judgment in his eyes. He said to me afterall that he thought I was another bitchy gallerist as he calls them. I guess, he changed his mind about me when I said that I had travelled in Vietnam and that yes, I looooved Vietnamese food. 

Since then, he has been one of my closest friend in London. We don’t see each other’s often but he is the kind of guy you can count on. He taught me a lot about the real London and how to swear properly like a cockney.

Drax planned to have his birthday party in Bangkok and it probably decided me to choose South East Asia for my trip. On the 21st, I had a text from him telling me the plans of that night. I took a cab to the Irish pub everybody was supposed to meet. Yep, Irish pubs… Everywhere right? The taxi driver was amazed by my words in Thai. I had the chance to learn how to direct elephants in the Elephant Retirement Park and it obviously worked also to give the directions! 

  
Half of the pub was full of people coming from East London just for the occasion. I was not expecting this kind of night. I felt like I was back home for few hours and God how great was it! 

It was also a chance for me, little backpacker with no lollies, to be in a club that I couldn’t afford if I was on my own. The view from the rooftop was far more different that what I saw around Kao San road…

   
    
    
 
The youngies were staying in an hotel with a swimming pool on the rooftop. I can let you imagine from where I watch the sunset after partying all night long. Lorenzo if you read that, I thought about you that morning… You know that whistle that you used to do all the time to mark your arrival in a room? Well, I found a little bird in Bangkok who was doing the same noise…