Queen's Garden Resort Bangkok

... But they don't quite look like mozzie bites, and nobody else in the guest house has been bitten by a mozzie even once in the last few days here. They were also biting me through the repellent. I checked the mattress, pillows,floor and walls but found no evidence of bugs anywhere - no creatures, and no droppings. Hmmm...a mystery indeed.
The f*cking invisible things continued munching on me throughout the following day, and my fingers, ankles and toes registered ...

An early night as a result of excessive drinking leaves me feeling slightly refreshed this morning and I arise before Pete and head to the internet. Upon my return reception call to see if we want to stay another night...no way jose this place smells of ****!!

We head down to check out and I can't believe it when the girl behind the couter says she hates giving guests room 2222 because it smells of ****. I look at the girl who refused to move us ...

... the time we got back to the flashpackers. In the morning we caught the ferryboat back up the river to Khao San Road. This is the bohemian backpacker area that was made famous by the book (and the subsequent movie), 'The Beach'. Again we were expecting something much seedier but the actual road and the area around the road were full of market stalls, nice eateries and shops. There was everything the discerning traveller could ever want - knockoff clothes & footwear ...

... it wouldn't be challenging." I guess the point is that we sometimes go places for the challenge and excitement rather than for ease and comfort. That is certainly the case with India.

The Trip

Tony and I will depart from Bangkok on 02 November, flying with Jet Airways through Calcutta (or as it is known now: Kolkata). This is not an obvious place for us to fly into India but we do so ...

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After a few attempts at this I was able to get deeper and deeper, nearing the end of the 12m of rope. End of day one and after nursing a pretty serious nosebleed (equalizing had taken it's tole on my sinus') I was feeling pretty good and looking forward to the second day...

Day 2. Back in the classroom for more breathing exercises, more of the theory and then out into the water. I'd taken some decongestants which cleared my airways ...

... re bigger than any mall I've been to in America. They actually have Forever 21 here.. and Playboy. Playboy is very popular here, from pencil bags to clothes to jewelery. You see the Playboy bunny everywhere. At Centerworld there was a display with a giant balloon dragon. We zipped over to the Sukhumvit Market on the sky train next. It gets a little raunchy over there, lots of bars and stuff. My Lonely Planet book was right, there's lots of obscene stuff. There was a T ...

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Stopped over in Bahrain before flying to Bangkok early in the morning without any sleep, which would later mean that during Muay Thai (Thai boxing) later that night I would be dozing off ringside whilst two blokes beat the life out of each other! Prior to this, we visited Bangkok's famous Wats ...

... need to queue. I went straight to the front, other people were looking at me and wondering why I did not to queue. After I had cleared immigrations the Qatar Airways lady got me one of those golf cart buggies that they use in the airports, so I hitched a ride and was dropped off at the departure gate, I felt like a VIP ! ! !

( I would highly recommend Qatar Airways, their customer service is really good)

The plane was 57 minutes late departing, I ...

... then we went to eat. Ahhhhhhh, the amazing street food on Thailand.

Fri Jul 7
Wake up around 6:15am, lounge around, and make my way downstairs for my free breakfast. I walked around the area, checked out a pet shop, then since my phone wasn't working, off to Pantip Plaza. I got there at 9:40am, but they didn't open until 10am. I had a root beer at A&W, and after Pantip ...