Bangkok 1st day or so was Farly unproductive due to time change jet lag and climate adjustment (it is really hot) I think I am still sweating even when I am taking a cold shower. Also the first night hotel that my parents booked from the US put me no where near anything of any interest (except for the complete lack of western presence) it has ta...

Hellooooooo So we arrived in Bangkok to find it very clean in comparison to India and not as much pollution as we'd expected. We were picked up by a small jolly Thai lady in her ac taxi with popeye seat covers. Dropped our bags off in our guesthouse, had a quick tea and headed straight for Ratachadamnoen Stadium to see our first Thai boxing matc...

Endlich bin ich wieder in Bangkok. Letztes mal war ich da fuer Jamboree, didn't have much sightseeing or shopping. Ich bin froh, dass es mein zweites mal SYN Reise war. Ich wollte schon lang nach Bangkok gehen weil ich gehoert habe, dass es eine schoene Stadt ist. And it's true, it's indeed a very beautiful place and a shopping paradise. Haha! I...

Now I know what that expression means. I thought it was just a figure of speech. I didn't realise that you could actually drop from shopping-based exhaustion. We woke up around 8 and Jess being the good mother that she is took the girls for a swim while I lazed around. We had breakfast at 9 because our concierge had made an appointment at 10 for...

The hour-long journey from the airport to Shanti Lodge gave us the opportunity to reaquaint ourselves with Bangkok's rush hour traffic. By the time we got to our hotel, we were ready for food and ac. The lodge was beautifully decorated, with mosaics and pools of fish, and plants everywhere. After cooling off and having a wonderful dinner, we wan...

OMG, I'm in Bangkok!! The flight was fine. Qantas really looked after me, and it was a great flight really, apart from six hours of ear problems from the pressure. It was cool though. Was quite nervous going through immigration thinking I had all the wrong paperwork, but I had no problems, naturally. The Airport Express bus was insane and took a...

5./6.8. Also , nach dem ich ganz vorbildlich (lt. FLughafen Wache) durch die erste kontrolle bin habe ich ein kind kennen gelernt das ohne irgendwas 1/2 stunde durchschreien kann - zum glueck hat es dann im flugzeug irgendwann aufgehoert, moeglicherweise hat ihm eine nette stewardess ein paar K.O Tropfen in die Milch getan. Der flug war ansonste...

We checked out at 12 today and tried to pay but they said we'd already paid through our booking agent! I'll have to check whats happened because I thought i'd only paid the deposit, however I won't be complaining if I don't have to pay!! We got a taxi to the train station at 1pm and our train didnt leave til 2. The journey was also cheaper, this...

Day 3: July 5th....sleep.... I was asleep until 5pm...after that it was dinner...talk with family....type the original entry, and then go back to sleep round midnight...i woke up again at 4 am :-p Day 4: July 6th Bangkok Drift? Well, after waking up at 4am...i stayed up after that. My mother's mother (grandmother) came to visit us (we always sta...

Since touching down at James Wattana International Airport (copyright Andy Morton 2002) Bangkok has certainly lived up to expectations, with every single act played out at 100 miles per hour by a succession of local madmen. Most of these madmen are taxi-drivers and yesterday we were subjected to perhaps the strangest guided tour ever known to mo...