There are a handful of places that feel like an extension of ourselves. The café you stop at for exactly seven minutes in the mornings, your office cubicle with its fluorescent lighting, the park bench where you relax on weekend mornings. We don’t hold these spaces in particularly high regard, but we think we know everything there is to know about them, and we love them for that very reason.
Some cities, too, become part of us in a similar fashion. For many Singaporeans, our neighbouring city of Bangkok takes on this precise function. The capital of Thailand is a familiar haven for all our favourite things: shopping, massages and street food. Hence, it is the perfect weekend getaway spot.
Sometime during the pandemic, our collective
