Sitdhi Guest House Bangkok

Here I am, finally living in the style I deserve. My own suite of rooms on the Chao Phraya river overlooking the Shangri La and the Oriental, sipping ice cold beer on the balcony as our maid prepares me a snack before I set out to meet some mates for lunch. I must say coming from a third world country I am always surprised on arriving here, just how the world has ...

... and more advanced (at least in the larger cities)
- An open, accepting and healthy attitude toward gender diversity, which is great. The she-males here are actually a lot more attractive than the women
- Lots of different modes of public transportation (songtao, tuk-tuk, flat rate and metered taxis, buses, trains, skytrains, river and klong or canal taxis,etc....) are very convenient except some need to be ...

... old town. The plan was then to make my way back to khao san and travel down into china town and end up in Silom, better known as the red light district.
I left the ferry and wandered for what seemed like miles. My tourist map was great but it appeared to have left out a lot of key roads and I didn't have a clue where I was, but I knew i didn't want to be there. It wasn't a tourist area. To make matters worse I was being hassled by a middle aged Thai bloke. I asked for ...

I think that where a country decides to play its national anthem can teach you something about how the people of a country, or their government thinks its people, spend their time. Take America for example, the national anthem is (dare I say) almost exclusively played at sporting events. And why not, when they are packed with ten to fifty thousand ...

... the Ticket Office girls sales pitch and with the help of the much needed AC the penny dropped and I asked the girl who readily agreed that the Guy and his Tuk Tuk accomplice were paid to send people in, the TukTuk driver with petrol vouchers and the guy a cut but that they still had great deals...which they ...

... had any so it was impossible to update pictures or anything.

A quick update: I am now in Bangkok again and planning on heading to Koh Tao in a few days to relax in an apartment on the beach and hopefully dive a bunch. I plan on trying to organize the millions of pictures I have as I bought a computer here in Thailand and will try to update the blog a bit. Been a crazy adventure with so ...

... qui fait pardoner sans hesiter tout les petits coins qui retroussent !

Ceci etant dit, comme vous le savez, je suis plus campagne et village que grande ville. Je compte donc quitter bangkok lundi pour aller, en train vers le Nord, a Chiang Mai. J<espere y trouver un peu plus de "fraicheur", au sens Thai du terme -- ce qui ne devrait pas aller bien en dessous de 30c !

Je vous quitte donc ici et vous dit, Sa wat di ka !

Bisous xxx

... and called up the realitor of the very first place we looked at and asked if we could get it. Unfortunately someone earlier in the day already put a deposit down on it. Bummer!!! So anyways, today we are heading to look at 2 more available units in the same complex that are a bit different but hopefully we can get one of them. We will keep you posted. Wish us luck (again)!

Jason & Lauren

Update-
Today Lauren and I focused on one main area that we liked and ...

... in a large spew, It is already happening but I am using my stomach muscles and will power to prevent an explosion over this poor key lady who, although doesn't deserve it, if she took 30 seconds longer she would have got a gob full. Up the stairs, luckily I'm on the first floor, but ****nuts! At the top there is a **** with a large bag blocking the way to my corridor, have to be polite, step over and past the bag, turn right, last door on the left. I have put my padlock on ...

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I had decided to head to the Chutachak Weekend Market, a huge maze-like monstrosity of a flee
market with about 10,000 stalls and that sees more than
200,000 people each day on the weekends. I hate shopping, and I find the whole Thai market thing with everyone yelling at you to buy from them even more annoying than American malls, so I wasn't excited at the prospect, but I had been told it was an experience I needed to have and figured it would be a good way to ...