Sa wa dee Kaa, I made it to Bangkok!!no dramas, flight fine, even learnt some common phrases, words, numbers on the plane to help pass the hours away. I arrived into Bangkok at 11.30pm hopped in a taxi and headed to my hotel near Chinatown, practised my first Sa wa dee (Hello) on the taxi driver who give me quite a quizzical look, hmmm the accent maybe??. oh well, im sure i will have time to practise my newly found - if not very basic - knowledge of the beautiful Thai language very soon. The first thing i saw driving along the highway into Bangkok were a group of young Thais that had pulled off the side of the highway watching the huge planes coming into land over the airport.... Their eyes so bright, lips so
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