Premier Residence Sathorn Suanplu Bangkok

5am and I wake up randomly and phone Pete. He has been sleeping somewhere someplace at the airport!! Only that boy I tell thee!!

Unable to sleep I switch the tv on and check out the channels. they have Australian Network here so I watch that for a bit. It's funny as am not a fan of Australia but suddenly I realise that that coutry has become my temporary home and I can relate to the programmes shown on this chanel!!

I fall back to sleep till 9ish when I get up ...

... br>The first day of visit, Jan 15,2010 after we pass the immigration we will go straight to our hotel ( right now not sure yet where we will stay but for sure that it will be a budget hotel) after check in to the hotel we might just look for a big lunch then take a walk tour around Tai pa island and end of with the vanice of east ( the venetian) then come back to the hotel. I ...

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... here, do yourself a favour and go to the tailors - I can buy a tailor made suit for $150. When I come back in January, I plan on buying 2 or 3 suits... and if I'm happy here, potentially more. Ladies, I also suggest that you come armed with cash to buy those dresses... tailor made... I noticed one lady spend 51000 baht ... about $1500. People come here to shop and I can see why. It is ridiculously cheap. To make matters better, I will ...

... lived to tell the tale.

The advert in Britain is "the car in front is a Toyota, well here the car in front, behind, to the left of you and right is a Toyota and the motorbike driving into the side of you is a Honda. I won't complain about the state of driving ...

... from Hong Kong.

We did however have a scare at one point when the lady selling puppies came along. Beckie was mentally assessing how much space we have in our backpacks to see how many we could bring home. But nasty Rob wouldnt let her! (Shouldnt have packed so many clothes!)

Now today.....

After a sleepless night, from being constantly woken up by strange noises from the pipes that sounded like frogs...we decided it was time to change hostels! So that ...

... there’s no chance she’s putting any of our stuff anywhere near her big, sweaty body! Paranoia aside, it really annoyed me and I walked out grumpy and not at all interested in shopping anymore!

We'd organised to meet Dame for a farewell dinner but he was still way to sick to move any further than between the toilet and the bed so Sam, Gemma and I went to this amazing restaurant which is now my new ...

... slept through and ended up waking up at 15.30 OOPS!

Tom had gone to do a bit of shopping at MBK shopping mail so me and Bob got a taxi over and met up with Tom we had a look around this massive shopping centre which had so much stuff some really good things to buy and a hell of a lot of junk as well
and then got the ...

... to dismiss us, and even rude, when they found out we weren't really interested in buying. All in all it was a nice tuk-tuk ride, even life-threatening at points, and we made it back to the Palace in early afternoon. Since it wasn't even 3 o'clock we decided to walk back to the market and grab lunch before the Palace.


Ken ...