Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel

"Why isn't our flight listed on the board?" Clearly this is not a great start to a trip - no sign of QF 339 on the flicky flick board at the airport. Even a Qantas person looks remarkably confused until I mention it is a Jetstar flight to Bangers, though they soon point us to the queue for JQ 029. The flight is delayed by one hour, due to a "auxilliary mechanical malfunction which has been rectified". I joking ask if that means its going to fall out of the sky, and I'm reassured that it is a ...

January 14, 2005 After a short stay in San Diego, and then a hectic ride for my Uncle and me around LA, I finally made it to the Sheraton Hotel for our pre-service Staging Conference. I seem to have an inclination for natural disasters, and the week worth of rain that I was able to enjoy in San Diego was followed by mudslides and flooding, canceling my train ride to northern LA and forcing my Uncle Ray to embark on a two-day driving binge that should qualify him for canonization. The Staging ...

Off to meet the boys in BK as its my friends stag do, looking forward to it haven't seen them in a while messy times ahead, think im ready have had some RNR so let the games begin ..

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We met our guide and driver at 7:30 AM and boarded our van for the 1.5 hour drive to the floating market at Dumnoen Saduak. He told lots of stories of good restaurants and his tour guide business and answered my questions about Thai boxing. Dee slept for a good portion of the drive as she normally falls victim in a moving car. We got a glimpse of the Thai countryside and smaller towns on the way. We arrived at the long tail boat dock by about 9:00. The boat ride was another 15-20 minutes wit...

First off, there was no tsunami yesterday, nor any bombings. Nor any gastrointestinal terror attacks. Just a tad of homesickness :) Meiling: It is my last day in Asia today - at 6pm I'll be on a flight to London (by way of Bahrain). I'm flying Gulf Air... ever heard of it? Me neither. I wonder what food they will serve me. As long as it wasn't made with fish sauce and oyster sauce I really don't care. Maybe kebabs? This morning we decided to celebrate my last day in style and we headed off to...

Here we are in Bangkok almost at the end of our 6 month trip. We left David's mum's house in North Wales one week ago on a typical English summer's day; cool and rainy. The garden, at least, benefitted from all the rain and the Agapanthus (originally from our Gold Coast garden) are thriving. We love Bangkok and even though it is hot, humid and polluted it has great energy. Just walking around and enjoying the perfume of the jasmine, frangipani, incense and food being cooked at street stalls ...

Sawatdee! (Hello from Thailand!) + link to PICS (finally!) hey guys! i arrived in delhi a week ago (yes, a week in delhi.. ugh) we took a sleeper bus (beds) from rishikesh to delhi we left there at 10:30pm and arrived at 5:00 am in delhi. we took a cab to the main bazar (pahar ganj) and after walking around we found a place to stay. fell asleep and got up at 9 am. we decided to go to the caughnnut place (excuse me for mispelling) (a big circle with shops and underground market) just to find o...

2006 PPM

Bangkok or Krung Threp as it is more correctly known and spelt out fully in Thai requires 167 characters of the European alphabet and the Thais claim it is the longest place name in the world. All of that simply means City of Angels, just like Los Angeles. However we believe the longest place name in the world is back home in NZ, we just can't remember all of it. Heathrow to Bangkok is an 11 hour flight, during which Thai Airways ply their passengers with copious offerings of alcohol, presuma...