Floral Shire Resort Bangkok

... ping pong', 'pussy blowing smokes rings', 'pussy swallow razor blades' and so on. Mitzi and Miss Moneypenny clearly need to buck their ideas up.

In the evening, we experienced Thai karaoke. Nuff said.

Then we had a midnight massage - of the therapeutic kind! There are literally massage parlours every 20 feet, so it seemed churlish not to try. It is nice - an activity to be repeated.

... and apologised for the inconvenience, as with most Asian cultures rather than understanding that some type of recompense is expected from such poor show, all they tend to do is nod and smile a lot, which is what I got a lot of!!!

Still, my suite was spectacular and the views of Bangkok from the 22nd floor were out of this world.

However, feeling quite frazzled and slightly out of it, I decided to go down to the Hilton Spa centre to ...

... pretty quickly how vital bug spray is and now Sarah has a couple of nice welts on her calf. Had a fairly early night, because by that stage we had been up probably a couple days with only a few hours sleep on the flight to Brunei. Day 2. Got up and had some breakfast, so we had something in our stomachs to get us through the day on our tour. Got back to the hotel to meet our guide, and he showed us to the car. A beat up old Volvo, complete with Playboy sticker. We're both ...

... three-wheeled motorcycles that are ubiquitous around Bangkok. Slightly cheaper than a regular taxi, they are able to scoot around through traffic much easier. The breeze created by our journey felt cool and refreshing, although the bus exhaust inconveniently located at nostril level counteracted the effect somewhat.

The shower was hot, the bed comfortable, the Pad Thai delicious. Little did we know what the next 12 hours would bring…

... to Jeab (who looks after us) who owns the house we are in and instead we made sarnies, thank goodness for the 7-11, without it I think Ellen would have starved. It kept us amused to watch the activities of the Monks, and it became an activity to spot the funniest things that they did. At the end of this week P4, P5 and P6 had a sleepover at the Temple and had 2 days being taught by the Monks, we were invited to watch and have lunch there. The 2 ...

... even the most disinterested type onto the all-pervasive shopping culture, and the ever-reliable MBK shopping centre is something of a Bangkok institution. No first-time visitor to Bangkok should miss out on the option of visiting the Grand Palace, and the reclining Buddha, though laid-back is hardly a quality you would attribute to the state of Bangkok's traffic, despite the opening of the MRT skytrain network, and an underground system more ...