View from the balcony of our first hotel

Just before the firecrackers and drums started.....


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Blog: Oh my god I can't believe it I've never been this far away from home
Date: November 12th 2006

Bangkok: It's nowt like Peterlee

Kris Having gone 36 hours with only an hours sleep between us we arrived at our hotel to find that there was a festival going on to herald our arrival. Nice eh? Sort of. Desperate for sleep after a brief excursion down the street to buy water we returned to our room at around 11 to collapse into bed. Hold on...the street festival outside our w ... read more







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