Back in Bangkok for the final time before returning home...after the tranquility of the islands we'd forgotten about the strange aromas, bustling streets, noisy street sellers and crazy roads which are impossible to cross!! We set off to visit the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew Temple. Knowing to enter such places you have to have shoulders and knees covered we were well prepared (Matt wearing long shorts below the knee and me taking a scarf to cover up shoulders when necessary). How wrong we were!! After finally pushing our way through the people selling postcards/pictures/fans/anything else you can think of we entered the main gates only to be growled at by a guard "no short pant, no short pant, no scarf, no scarf" whilst ushering us and many other people into a dressing room!! We
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