Welcome to my adventures in Thailand! GETTING THERE.. Despite checking in 5 minutes prior to check-in closure, my boyfriend Pete and I settled into our cute pink and purple Thai Airways seats. Economy is always a bit of a bummer, but the food was great and we had our own in-seat TV/video games, which made the 9 hour flight more bearable. The service was good, and the Thai stewardesses (dressed in traditional Thai silk ensembles) were a refreshing change from the usual stiff Qantas yuppie flight attendants. We touched down at Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi - the new airport) at about 4.30pm and somehow spent about 1.5 hours just going through immigration and stocking up at Boots Chemist before boarding our flight to the (large) island of Phuket. Of course, immigration staff did manage to send us on
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