Blogs from Thailand, Asia - page 2670

We have been through Bangkok several times already. Bangkok is a transportation hub and a place to run errands and do other tasks. Since it is so hot, we've been to see several movies that were much better than the wretched "Frankenfish." We saw "The Constant Gardener," "A History of Violence," and "Crash." All were great films, but "Crash" was fantastic and completely deserving of its recent Best Picture Oscar. We highly recommend all these movies, especially "Crash," though the extensive violence in "A History of Violence" might be disturbing for some viewers. We only need to see one more movie at this theatre to get a free ticket. Many of you may have noticed on the news that were massive protests in Bangkok before the elections on April 2. The protesters demanded that the Prime ... read more

How do you love and hate somewhere at the same time? We arrived in Malaysia again, this time with more open minds about actually trying to enjoy this country that we had disliked so much because of the people. At the airport in Bali we met a guy called Jack, from England, who we ended up befriending and stayed the night with us to share the cost. After arriving at around 8pm, we took the 9RM ($4.50) bus from the new Low Cost Carrier Terminal into KL Sentral. Air Asia have a new terminal that is so bad, it has not enough seats, NO ATM, and planes seem to be delayed for even longer! Stupid Air Asia. Anyway, we caught a taxi to a hostel that some friends recommended, although we decided not to stay there, ... read more

So we are now in our Eco-houses. I am in the Blue Eco-house which I thought was a bit poo to begin with as all the people I met in Bangkok are in the Lemon house. No worries though as we are staying with some Dutch people whio all seem great and a Belgium girl who is just full of life. So we have spent the last few days getting to know each other, learning Thai and generally seeing the surrounding area of Singburi, it's a great little village with no tourists anywhere just the crazy yet very respectful Thai! The food is all vegetarian and the cook Dee is amazing, he especially likes me as I fixed his motorbike yesterday, so the food is flowing and I am loving it! We are learning Thai which ... read more

Finally got to big old Bangkok town :) Flight was veeeeeeeeeeeeery long but definately worth it. the weather is really really hot and humid, actually its probably 100% humidity at the moment as it is absolutely chucking it down. Everything is as cheap as expected. Went to a bar yesterday and the bar staff tried to sell us San Miguel... quite funny! still it is only 100 baht (1 quid 50) for a biiiiiiiiiiig Singha beer. We get some pics soon... gonna go for some dinner now. Pad Thai with egg is the flavour of the week so far, basically egg fried noodles with a spring roll. only 30 Baht, which is not more than 20 pence like everything else over here. Gotta go now, there is a scary bug next to the computer.... arrggghhh! Can't ... read more

And so arrived the most significant milestone of my trip so far. Up until now, I had been travelling out to the most far-flung corners of the globe (well far-flung if you're using Glasgow as a starting point) but when I arrived in Auckland airport I was officially on my way home. Not that it was time to book a table at La Vita and put the Irn Bru on ice just yet; I still had 3 months in south-east Asia, a rendez-vous with China and the small matter of the Trans-Siberian railway ahead of me, but in the manner of someone waking up on the morning of their 40th birthday, there was a certain 'bloody hell, that's half of it over already' in my step as I boarded my flight to Bangkok on to a ... read more