Boonsiri Place Hotel Bangkok

Albi: I love Bangkok. Apart from the noise and the stink and the confusion from all the cars and tuk-tuk three wheelers, it's quite fun just trying to get your bearings. Kelly, however, has been a bit overwhelmed with all the stimulation. So far, we've been taking it very slow. Kelly: Not at ALL what I had expected. Our hotel is FANTASTIC! The Boonsiri Place Hotel with our OWN BATHROOM and A/C for about 32 USD a night. The location is very near the infamour Khao San Road but far enough that w...

Our good friend Air Asia didn't let us down. We left on time and arrived 25 minutes early! We were back in Bangkok for one main reason - you can't fly direct from Cambodia to Delhi (not cheaply anyway). We had made very few plans regarding our time in India and needed at least a few days to book hotels, read up on the places we wanted to go and figure out the best way of getting between them. We extended our stay in Bangkok to be able to do this and returned to the Boonsiri Place Hotel for an...

And now the end, the end is near - and so i face a long bus journey..................more about that later. Actually its the 21st June and i'm writing this in Phnom Penh, Cambodias Capitol, slowly updating 3 weeks worth of events - really I'd forgotten how long this took, I've just been and trained for the first time in that 3 weeks and feel quite ill - I've never been anywhere so polluted or poor for that matter. Its how I imagine india would be. People living on the streets and defacating o...

DAY 1 - Bangkok - Hello from beautiful Bangkok, or as it is actually named, Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam. Seriously, that is the Guiness certified longest city name in the world. Sarah and I made it in last night after 20 sleepless hours of flying. Unfortunately we arrived so tired that we couldn't truly appreciate the gift it is to be alive a...

DAY 2 - Bangkok - Did I say it was hot yesterday? Because that was a lie. Now it's hot. If yesterday was Statesboro in August, then today is Statesboro during the apocalypse. And not my self-serving metaphorical liberal theological apocalypse, but some serious, don't even read well enough to know what a metaphor is, Mama go get your shotgun 'cause there's molten hot judgement pouring down upon us from the mouth of an angry angry God intent on repaying us for even building a town as ****** as ...

Arrived in Bangkok after an 11 hour flight from Heathrow.

Snakes!!! Totally cool right?? I didn't think so, until I got to visit the snake milking farm in Bangkok!! Totally bizarre, right...I figured I'd visit some awesome Palaces and temples, eat great food...not venture off to a museum to watch a snake get milked, but to my surprise it was the highlight of my 4 days in Bangkok!! And truth be told..I didn't even know snakes could be milked!! For those of you thinking snakes have nipples to be milked that's just not true, It's when there fangs are m...