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Published: October 9th 2006
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Bangers in a nutshell:
Dan and I spent the first few days arguing. We were both tired and emotional. Mostly tired. Once we had caught up on sleep we started to relax and enjoy ourselves,
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We struggled to book ourselves into the hostel. We wanted to upgrade to a twin room in a bid to recharge the batteries. This concept was very difficult for the girl behind the desk to grasp. After 15 minutes. She showed us to our new room. Proudly placed in the centre was a double bed. After much hand gesturing (“what’s the international hand signal for twin room?”) and head shaking we sorted it out.
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We visited many temples and palaces. We tried to hide from the sun but it always found us in the end. Dan tried to convince me that no-one does anything in South East Asia between the hours of 11-4. I didn’t know if he was telling the truth or was fabricating the story in a bid to go back to the hostel to get more sleep.
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As our hostel was a long way from anything we spent a lot of our time in taxis. Sometimes in traffic jams,
Wat something
Can't for the life of me remember the name of this temple. Sorry. Nice place, though. sometimes not. At least they all had air-con: man’s greatest invention since the elasticated snake belt.
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Visited the Myanmar (Burma) embassy twice in an attempt to get our visas in advance. The first time we arrived to find that we were too late to be processed. The second time we arrived just before they opened and found a long queue waiting for us. We figured that we could easily wait all morning only to find that we would have to come back the following day as well. We gave up and went for a coffee instead.
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We got ripped off by a tuk-tuk driver, Bangkok’s favourite mode of transport. We knew that he would try and scam us but we did it anyway. He took us all around the city, taking us to various pre arranged shops absolutely nowhere near where we wanted to go. In the end we got out, paid him a pittance and discovered that we were actually further from our destination than when we started. We got another Taxi.
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We saw Khao San Road. It was 7pm at night. It was rather quiet.
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We went shopping some more. I bought a rucksack.
The roof of the same place.
Still can't remember the name. Dan bought creams for is many ailments. Some things don’t change.
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We wandered around Chinatown’s labyrinthine markets and developed "Black Lung" from all the pollution.
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We had an expensive meal at a restaurant. Realized how expensive it was (relatively cheap but not when you’re on a budget) and have eaten at cheap roadside stalls ever since.
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We have had a great time so far and are looking forward to when we return this way again in a few months time.
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I am concerned your spelling seems to have improved. This makes your blogs much less interesting to a spelling / grammar pedant. I perked up when I saw 'labrinthine' but feel you let me down badly by spelling correctly and using it in the right context. Regards to Dan.