Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 21

D. 20/08-21/08 2017 Så ankom jeg til Bangkok, hvor jeg fornemt blev hentet af min chauffør, som kørte mig til mit flotte hotel, hvilket var lækkert efter at have sovet på hostels de sidste 23 dage. Da klokken nærmede sig 18, tog jeg mod stray shoppen for at møde min første rejsegruppe. Stray shoppen skulle kun ligge 3 minutters gågang fra mit hotel, så det var jo nemt nok (troede jeg), da jeg havde et udprintet kort med. Jeg ledte og ledte, men kunne ikke finde stedet, samt de lokale var ret dårlige til engelsk, så de kunne ikke hjælpe. Da klokken var lidt over 18, kunne jeg stadig ikke finde stedet, så jeg endte med at gå ind i en 7/11 for at købe et simkort. Men da de prøvede at snyde mig, endte jeg ... read more

It's still raining! Not that we minded too much as we were mainly travelling all day. We have now left Cambodia and are back in Bangkok. It was a pretty uneventful day, filled with buses, planes and more buses to start our journey home. I finally posted the postcards I have been carrying around with me for a week, I'm pretty certain I will get home quicker now! We did also stop at a pretty amazing place for a snack/lunch... It was called 'the stop' and it was really funky! They had used lots of recycled goods, including parts of cars, to use as decor in the restaurant and the toilets. Even better than the decor was the coffee and croissants! Once we got to Bangkok we checked back into the hotel where we stayed 2 ... read more

Tuesday I woke up not knowing what day of the week it was. When George woke the kids and told Sam it was twelve o’clock mid day Sam wouldn't believe it. Apparently, when we all went to bed last night, Sam decided that, as the bathroom was rather swish, he would have a soak in the bath. I thought that was histerical as we were all so tired from our journey I thought that both the kids would crash out immediately. We all put on our bath robes and went up to the roof hoping a swim would wake us up. I have never swam in an infinity pool twenty five floors high before and I thought it was quite magical. Later a pink taxi cab took us to The River Restaurant beside the Chao Phraya ... read more

Our wedding anniversary started fairly averagely - we opened our cards, ate breakfast together and them, oh yeah, packed our MASSIVE backpacks ready to leave for our epic adventure to Indonesia - 25 days door to door travelling through Java and Bali. We were very excited as we boarded the train to Heathrow. The night before, I had jokingly suggested that we should take a bottle of champagne on the train to celebrate our anniversary in style. We needn't have worried. 2 men sitting opposite us had bought 2 bottles to drink on their way to a booze "business" meeting. On chatting to us and sharing their first bottle, they discovered it was our anniversary. Congratulations ensued before the second bottle was passed our way with their best wishes. The kindness of strangers never fails to ... read more

Donnerstag, 21.07.17: Tag beginnt um 06:15 (01:15 - Österreich) und zwar damit, dass wir unseren teuren Starbucks-Kaffee wegschütten müssen, um im gebuchten Taxibus mitfahren zu dürfen... :-( Auf dem heutigen Tour-Plan stehen in Asia-Tourismus-Art 6 Tempel, Mittagessen und ein Palast. Überall genau so viel Zeit, dass sich ein Foto, ein Souvenir und ein bisschen Geschichte Thailands ausgeht. Auch wenn das phasenweise sehr mühsam war - die Jahrhunderte alte Tempelruinen waren schon sehr sehr cool... Auf einer Aussichtsplattform erkannten wir beide, dass wir tatsächlich Höhenangst haben, was Helikopter-Flüge, Fallschirmsprünge und "glas-bridge" Spaziergänge in Neuseeland, San Francisco und Las Vegas noch spannend machen könnte... :-/ Und da war noch... ... die Klimaanlage in unserem Zimmer, die erst seit heute Abend funktioniert. Davor hatten wir immer angenehme 30° in u... read more