One Night in Bangkok

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Hi all,
Well ......where do we start? After emotional farewells at Heathrow we boarded our Quantas flight to Bangkok. Stu wriggled all the way! But 10 hours soon passed. We were hit by 30+ degs of heat and humidity and the Bangkok traffic. But we followed the advice we were given and got into the right taxi. The Veingtai Hotel was a welcome site. Its grand entrance unfortunately did not extend to the rooms, but it was clean and comfortable and suited all our needs.
We ventured out into neighbouring Khoa San Rd. OK so it's all tourist tatt but we only had 'one night in Bangkok' (by Murrayhead early 80's one hit wonder!....esp for Mark and Tracey). We needed a few Chang beers to relax into it, but then it was all good. We feasted on street stall pad thai and spring rolls, with some cockcroaches as dinner guests. We mixed with the local children playing games of 'thumb war' for 20Bt.
After a good sleep and a mighty breakfast of spicy pork and rice at the hotel we headed back to the airport for our flight to Hanoi.
So far it has been everything we hoped for and we are loving it! So excited about Vietnam. We heard they are short there! ( Taller than Marco though!)
We wanted to put some photos on at this stage but the computer is very slow...will add them at a later date so look back in a few days!

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Photos

Yum Yum...
Meal for one please.

Give me teethy!
I have worked with better people. There was a elephant in the Congo once.....

Yellow and Juicy.
Corn never tasted this good, except the KFC bucket meal at No:71, damn good coleslaw.

Bangkok Skyline
Just like Fairwater.

Me and the cockroach.
Sharing a vey pleasant meal with a roach. The guy with four legs and living in the sewer was cool also.

On the move again.
Stuart (The Sherpa) underneath the offical door at Bangkok airport.

Comments

[Rachel Powell]

Thanks for sending that twice just to compound the jealousy! Hurry up with the pics....weather beautiful in Cardiff today :)

[penny]

Hi guys - all sounds cool so far. V envious especially as its knobbling here and im struggling through my appraisal. Im not sure if im doing this right but in case you missed it the rugby was awesome. We beat england- 26 - 19 at Twickenham! Looked like it was over at half time but amazing come back. love penny xxx