Can't believe we're actually here! After all the planning, sketching (bloody visas!) and packing, here we are in Bangkok, travellers paradise. After a pretty uneventful flight (the ususal inflight entertainment and attempts at sleeping), we arrived at the new Bangkok airport, which is huuuge, and went to find a taxi which wasn't going to completely rip us off. Sort of found one (never not gonna get a little ripped off!) and headed for travellers mecca, the Kao San Road. It was hectic and hot, so we checked into the first place we looked, which happened, by chance of course, to have a swimming pool!! The room is basic to say the least, but it'll do! We spent the evening taking it all in, well Ben did this mainly, I however wandered around with a feeling of
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