Friendly Guest House Bangkok

Hey Fellow travelers and expats, I have been traveling in Thailand for many years and I also live here and I just had my best Thailand experience, I have just been on a short 4 day lake safari trip to the Kanchanaburi province, where I spend 4 days on a traditional Thai houseboat, cruising around Khao Laem lake and it was great. It's a part that is not discovered by mass tourism ...

... far into the jouney we hit traffic...lots of it!! This has to be on par with the M25 at rush hour!! It's takes us almost 2 hours to get back and when we do I slip the guy a little extra cash and we head inside to dump Pete's stuff and then it's outside onto Khao San!! Wandering up and down we settle on a little street side cafe and the beers are on their way!! It's barely 9am and we are drinking beers and eating the fattest noodles ever!! Welcome to Bangkok I guess ...

... the Grand Palace and alot of pigeons finally to get on a ferry which took me speedily down the river to near where I wanted to be. In this city, the way to travel was either sky train or river boat, the latter cheaper, being just 13 baht (about 20p)! I walked around chinatown and then got the underground back to my hotel where I had lunch, a shower and a swim in the rooftop infinity pool which was heaven in ...

... I went to a different part of it - to Had Rin in search of life. First night on my own sucked, stayed in a hell hole that stank & I thought I was the only one staying there, as it was at the end of the beach I was too scared to stay out late so went to bed at 9 & read Ben Elton trying not to wonder what the hell I was doing here. Next day I found new digs, Chill House, Julie, Erik, Nid, Luke, Rob, some guy who I never got the name of. all people ...

... he went to play with it...the charger was missing and all he had was an empty box...hahaha...sorry not that funny really...but cause its Pa...hahahaha!!

So there ends the Thailand blog. I will start one just for the photos and one for Australia. Bear with me as i am slow...well cause im doin stuff to fill this bloody thing. Hope you enjoed reading it and keep coming back...more often than I do.

As for Thailand.....fookin love it!!!!!

... so that no group of similar people can tell me, "Your manors are not appropriate for this culture’s manner." Because my reply would be, “then don’t drag me into your manner for I have a manner of my own and it is 100 fold bigger than yours because in my manner there are no binds that hold me or anyone else to one cultures’ narrow manors. For to behave and interact with one’s culture-constricted mannerisms, would be complete blind foolishness ...

... into a building and sat in a very dark and dingy bar. Then the madness started! We feel we do not need to describe what happened, but its something that we will never want to see again! haha! It was definately an experience!

So after quickly leaving, we walked to the main street and climbed into a taxi (still not a pink one!) and headed back to our road.

Off to bed now.......keep the comments coming!!!

Lots of love to you all

Rob and Beckie

... Yes, a cockroach crawled into my shorts in a bar (not a euphemism Dad), but all in all I found it a city of vibrance, of colours, smells, sounds and of enchanting character.

On my first day in the big smoke, whilst taking in some air con time in the 7/11 (it’s incredible how long you can eek out corner shop browsing), it became clear that after my hippy encounter in Pai, the Almighty wasn’t done with throwing oddballs my way. Step ...

... run away from the annoying women walking around selling souveniers etc. Didn't show any interest in buying anything, but at one point were surrounded by seven of them trying to sell the exact same thing, and it was a good half hour before they accepted defeat.
At first I thought the kids selling roses was cute. They are so hyper and speak really good English. But realised they're working at midnight, one was only 3 or 4 ...