Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 7

Despite the best efforts of the M25 we made it to terminal 3 at heathrow in good time. Security etc was very quick leaving us enough time for a tagliata and a cheeky primitivo (large glass of). Flight was called on time and we assembled at the departure gate . Joining us were the normal travelling folk but also, as it was Bangkok, an array of distinctly seedy looking blokes. One of them made the child catcher from Chitty chitty bang bang look saintly! I don't like to think what his holiday plans were. We flew with EVA air who are perfectly adequate. A couple of large g&t 's were consumed before watching the latest Disney film 'Wreck it Ralph' not exactly highbrow but didn't need to engage brain so that was fine by me. Arrived ... read more

Ajijic to Culiacan. Culiacan to San Carlos. San Carlos to Gila Bend, AZ. Gila Bend to San Diego, CA. San Diego to Rohnert Park. After 19 months of living in Mexico and Central America, we were back where we started. When we first drove to Mexico, we stayed in a Best Western in San Carlos and ate at a restaurant a couple of doors down. Last week on our way back to California, we drove to San Carlos, stayed in the same Best Western (in the same room) and ate at the same restaurant. In fact, we even had the same meal – very fitting! There are two ways to go in California once you get to Phoenix – I-10 to Los Angeles or I-8 to San Diego. Since I had never been to San Diego, ... read more

Well folks were are coming to an end of my journey here in Thailand. Can you believe it? I certainly cannot. Two years has flown by and in a few days I will be heading over to Vietnam. I don't know where the time has gone, but I know it was a good time! Despite leaving next week, I decided to head into Bangkok to hang out with some friends one last time before I say goodbye to them. One of them had a ridiculously nice hotel that her and her mother were going to use. Instead she decided to head straight home so we took advantage and a group of us spent a few days hanging out together and talking about our time here. I really can't believe it is coming to an end, have ... read more

Goodbyes- check Mary- check Check in- check Luggage- check. We actually get to check in our bags (pretty light this year at 12kg for the entire trip- in an effort to be more minimalistic than last year) as well as 2 overly large extra ones bound for a hospital/ orphanage/ midwifery centre supported by The Healing Tree in Perth (an initiative set up by a Perth doctor). Thai Airways have been generous enough to accommodate the extra stuff because it's going to a charitable organisation. Day pack- check. Got my travel docs, my money- all 4 currencies, my camera, my ipod, my iphone, blah, blah, blah Voting- check. Polling booths have been set up for absentee voting in the Western Australian state election scheduled for March 9, 2013 (Liberal landslide as it turns out). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We... read more

I dag tok vi en drosje til Bangkok og det gikk tregt pga mye traffikk. Vi ble litt nærvøse for ikke å rekke flyet til Krabi. Vi var der litt over en time før avgang så dette burde gå bra...var bare et lite problem vi var på feil flyplass ha-ha Air Asia hadde flyttet alle sine flyvninger til den gamle flyplassen og det hadde ikke vi fått med oss (joda sto på billetten men av gammel vane møtte vi opp der vi altid hadde møtt opp= Fikk kjøpt billett hos et annet selskap og vi drar herfra om et par timer!!... read more

UPDATE: 2 Fotos, leider nur vom Fernseher abfotografiert, weil wir keinen PC haben ;) Heute hieß es früh aufstehen, denn um 07:30Uhr ging's schon los mit unserer Stadtrundfahrt. Haben die 3 bekanntesten von über 400 Tempeln in Bangkok besichtigt. Ein 5,5t schwerer Buddah und ein 40m langer, liegender Buddah inklusive :) Nach nur 4Stunden Schlaf und der schwülen Hitze war der Ausflug sehr anstrengend, aber auch sehr schön. Erschöpft wollten wir uns kurz auf dem kühlen Hotelzimmer ausruhen, sind dann aber eingeschlafen und nach 5Stunden erst wieder aufgewacht. Es war dann 23:00Uhr als wir nochmal raus sind um was zu Abend zu essen. Morgen geht es weiter nach Koh Samui, wo Strand und Meer auf uns warten :) Freuen uns schon sehr darauf!... read more

We have really been spoilt by friends and family over the past few weeks. Our last ten days were in Skelmersdale with Scotty’s mum, who has been cooking us lots of lovely food and helping us take care of the last few bits and pieces before we leave. Scotty’s Aunty Irene and Uncle Ian treated us to a couple of days in the beautiful Lake District, which was an awesome way to say goodbye to the UK, and I got pretty spoilt by my workmates, who I’m gonna miss a huge amount while we’re away. We arrived in Bangkok on Thursday morning after nearly 24 hours of travelling. The flight to Bangkok is only around 11 hours from the UK, if you get a direct flight, but we were flying through Amsterdam with a 5 hour ... read more

Gestern Abend waren wir in der Scirocco Sky Bar und haben uns dorthin das Abenteuer TukTuk-Fahren angetan :) Nachdem wir heute das Frühstück verschlafen haben, haben wir auf eigene Faust die Stadt erkundigt. Wir sind wieder mit dem TukTuk zu Paul dem Schneider gefahren und ich habe mir 3 Hemden bestellt. Dank Stefan und Fam Nockemann zu einem guten Preis :) Danach sind wir LongTail-Boat gefahren und haben vor einem der Häuser ein Krokodil liegen gesehen. Nach einer interessanten Stunde ließ das Boot uns in ChinaTown raus. Haben dort viele merkwürdige Gerichte gesehen und das vielseitige Stadtleben Bangkoks. Ausserdem haben wir uns dort eine 1stündige Fussmassage gegönnt, die wir uns nach der anstrengen Reise auch verdient hatten. Auf dem Weg ins Hotel haben wir noch zu Abend gegessen und freuen uns gleich schon auf die Dusche ... read more