Captain Awesome and Epic Ernst are off the grid
Ernst and I are taking time out of our 'hectic' schedules to travel South East Asia and convert to full blown beach bums... which, if we're honest, isn't that far off the truth anyway. You may start being jealous....... NOW! :PCaptain Awesome Epic Ernst
Travel Blog Posts
June 2nd 2009
After clearing customs and collecting our backpacks, we came upon an Irish couple (Keeran and Marie) at baggage reclaim that asked where we were heading. ‘Khaosan Road”. And so we shared the cab in from the aiport… Result! Despite ALL of us knowing full well that we were supposed to ensure that we took a metered cab, we somehow ended up doing what every tourist does when arriving in a new country and accepted a taxi at 500 baht… upon arrival, they taxi driver not only didn’t know where the hotel was, but also reckoned that he agreed to 700 baht. Marie wasn’t having any and so the argument in the street began. (Over the next couple of days we would bear witness to a few similar arguments in the street) Anyway, 500 was what he ... read more
June 2nd 2009
And so it begins…. 2nd June, 2009, Ernst and I arrive at Heathrow airport to catch our British Airways flight to Bangkok. With an interesting mixture of nerves and excitement we start the checkin process. As seems to be the way with everything nowdays, they have chosen to leverage technology in an attempt to make all of our lives faster and easier… uh, lie! Now an army of electronic checkin machines line the halls of the airport and whereas I’ve usually had the option of speaking to a human being, this time they insisted that we checkin with their fancy new machines… of course there is still an army of people there because the machines inevitably aren’t going to work they way they should. True to form we were unable to checkin, so the human contingent ... read more
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