"Home, home on the range - where the deer and the antelope graze" So sang the bloke on the Simpsons. But there are no antelope, or deer - not here. Just London buses, delayed trains, bored faces, clean streets, pavements, tarmac, coats, traffic rules and April. But first, to fill in the rest of Bangkok. We went to a shopping mall called MBK and we asked a tuk-tuk to take us, me sighing at John accepting such a high offer to get us there. But soon after we left the tuk-tuk driver, aghast at the traffic, advised us to take the boat at a cost of 9000 Baht (18p). So we bunged him something for his 5 minutes of driving (he wanted 5 times as much, but we laughed off the suggestion and he conceded with
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