G'day from Sydney!! Sorry for the slackness. Our new year resolution is to be better blog writers ... HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We saw New Year in in Bangkok. We were staying and went out in the backpacker area. The main backpacker road was cleared for New Year festivites. The whole of Khao San Road took on a festival atmosphere - packed full of people, bars in the street, balloons, food stalls, candy floss, a stage and DJ and a huge clock. It was quite a place to see the New Year in .... twice, because we accidently celebrated it before 12 as everyone around us started shouting Happy New Year and we let our balloons go and we popped out party poppers - only to hear those around the clock and stage go mad a minute
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