Bangkok...Oriental (and v cheap) City

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Greeting friends and random-ers that have stumbled across this page.....fasten your seat belts (and have your sick bags at the ready) for my first blog...right so how does this thing actually work..

So, after 11.5 hours of my 12 hour flight I thought I'd better plug in my ipod to listen to the crash course in Thai language skills that I had cleverly downloaded b4 I set off. Yeah I know. The good news was that it worked.....the bad news was that most phrases ended with 'krap' which at this stage I wasn't quite sure if it was some kind of wind up.....anyway armed with my favourite 'kraps' I headed for passport control...

Safely thro' but as I didn't have anywhere to stay I took a taxi to the famous Khao San road to try my luck (not like that). The taxi driver had other plans tho and threw in an inpromptu detour via a shop trying to sell me tours and accomodation. The charming lady inside offered me some nice (and expensive) accom but when I said I wanted somewhere cheaper her mood changed and she responded with 'you want to stay somewhere that smells of chicken piss then?', an unusual sales tactic I thought, as I left the shop...

Sleep patterns were all over the shop for the first three days ranging from 1.5 hours to 13 so I didn't take in any trips. I used this time to get visas for Vietnam and Cambodia and also take in the temples. I couldn't believe how quiet the Grand Palace was, or maybe I had crept in when it was shut for lunch?.....it was only when I took a taxi to Wat Po that I realised I was nowhere near the Grand Palace having walked the wrong way down one of the main roads, damn that Geography degree I thought. But the 'empty mystery temple' was nice all the same.

Day 5 would see me get up at 5.30 am to take in the Floating market, Cobra show, Bridge over River Kwai and some tame tigers....but that's the next entry......

Note to self: try to improve content for blog 2

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Photos

The Wah Empire
Good to see the Empire is growing nicely

Cool Buddha Shrine
Found in the grounds of the Temple that I thought was The Grand Palace

Another Building
Can't remember what I thought this one was, but it wasn't anyway!

Reclining Buddha
A whopping 46m x 15m

Wat Po
Thought it was, and it was.

Local Restaurant
Selling Red Snapper!

Comments

[Stuart]

Woo i get first comment.
hello ginger good to see that you are still alive. it's about time that you started blogging as looking at the photo of you as a young kid was starting to get quite boring. It is good to c that your sense of direction hasn't changed much since we went to madrid but at least you got to see somthing probably other people haven't. loving the vids on youtube mate espically my mention at the end of the train one. looking forward to the next post.

[Debs]

Well you wanted comments....
I'm reading your blogs on this site Gar and I'll check out Youtube when I can. Funny to see you as a little brat - you haven't changed a bit, except for the stubble... Loving the sweater too boyo. Anyway moving on, so are your kraps fluent now from all those adventures in Thailand? x

[Fi]

Ginger One
I am very pleased to see the Thai franchise of The Wah empire is up and running! I say kraps have got to be a good thing surely xxx