After three days in Bangkok I am quite looking forward to getting out of here. It's been fun, but I've spent most of my time trying to fight off con-artists and touts. Every single person here has some kind of motive, the tuktuk drivers all wanna take you somewhere you don't wanna go, someone talking to you in the street has some kind of motive, its paranoid city! Was involved in a very elaborate scam today, involving three or four "actors" in different places, a tuktuk driver and a jewellery store. I managed to get away without losing my money, went back to the hotel and looked it up, the scam was in my Rough Guide to Thailand, pretty much word for word. I was almost tempted to buy that jewellery and double my money by
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