Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 694

After an extensive buffet breakfast we were shuttled back to the airport for the 7 hour flight to Bangkok via Thai Air. Their partner, Air canada, could learn some lessons from them. The colourful uniforms of the stewardess' exentuated their cheerful smiles and desire to be of service. The meals were tasty as far as airplane food goes. Being the last served, the menu choice was limited to baked smoked eel. An open bar throughout the flight helped make the meal settle well. The eel was not as good as Kim Dormar's on the Island but when in Japan, do as the Japanese do. Singha beer at 6 percent helped settle me into snooze mode so the flight took little time. I could see from circling in a wide radius that Bangkok had grown a lot ... read more

Boy did we need a good foot massage today. Aside from the usual black feet and dirtyness of the day our foot soreness had reached a new level. Yep, we got lost! It was so exciting! We have mastered the skytrain, some buses, and the boat system (also public transit) but the streets and out of scale maps are a whole other thing. Us being not so concerned with time (that is we like to take lots of it to do what we want to do...planning is not our priorety) this worked out perfectly. Being lost was probably the best thing that happened to us today. we conquered china towm and were the only foreigners as far as thge eye could see for most of this day. we walked through the mechanical repairs section of town ... read more

On the train from Surat Thani to Bangkok I was really not looking forward to coming back here, since my memories of the city were rather nasty. But when I got here, I actually found it quite relaxed, partially because I am staying in a different part of town this time and also because I am kind of used to the Asian ways by now... I shared a double with Diego for the first night in a little street near Khao San, but on the next day his girlfriend arrived, so I had to move out into my own room. The three of us visited the Grand Palace grounds together. Then they left to go up north, but I was quite lucky as I had met a very friendly Thai girl the other night, Au. It ... read more

Ahhhhhhhh! Pardon that but I just finished a lengthy and exhaustive 30 minutes with picture related upload only to have Internet Explorer crash. It is reassuring that half a world away and nothing changes. Alas. So not to be outdone by yesterday, we have returned to the cheapie mall and started putting in serious time at the internet cafe. In addition we also picked up our plane tickets to leave for Burma tomorrow. Some of you may know it as Myanmar. Some of you may know it as the Golden Land. Others may have no idea what I am talking about. Basically this is a military dictatorship neighboring Thailand. We know very little about it except what we read in our book and on other people's travel blogs but it looks fantastic and exciting. We ... read more

As promised, here's the rest of the images........ read more