Hi All, Our adventures have finally begun for real! Bangkok has been fabulous - already amazed at how much you can pack in to a few days!! First day visited Jim Thompson's House - beautiful and a fascinating intro to aspects of Thai life and history - never seen thread being extracted from silk worms before. Yesterday enjoyed Olie's City and Tempes Tour - brilliant call Olie. Whizzed round to 3 Wats - Golden Buddha (all 5 tons of it) Reclining Buddha (hugely amazeballs) and the white marble temple with the Happy Buddha - mind you don't know what they're on as they all look happy!! Guide was called Sunny as his Thai name meant sunshine...ahh I hear you say - how quaint. He was brilliant though and gave a very interesting personal insight into an
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