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A Ladyboy, a con-artist and a Burger King
So as we write this we are chillin in our swish hotel in the
centre of Bangkok, The Miramar, we booked it at 11 and checked in at 1.30. we
got a metered taxi from the hotel it was bright green and yellow (Laura wanted
a pink one) the driver had no idea where we wanted to go so stopped at loads of
telephone booths and tried to get directions from the hotel, 40 mins later we
arrived( taxi cost £6). The traffic in Bangkok is as ...
Khaosan Road
... day was further enhance our gastronomic experience, meet up with the shopkeeper who treated Jean-Pierre so well during his previous visit last year, and to sit and query a few of the 'ink' shops; more on that much later in our trip. It didn't take long for us to get hungry. We found a restaurant/bar (that order switches around 4pm) that had the most delicious Tom Yum soup; Jean-Pierre ...
2nd Day of Work!
... some lunch. CCS packed up salad and potatoes and 2 pieces of chicken. I ate the chicken and the salad but not much of the potatoes because the teachers gave me some rice and chicken curry! Soooo spicy. Way spicier than any curry I've had. Spicy but delicious. When I was done eating, I thought I'd read some of The Lucky One so I laid down on some bench in the nap area, and then the boy laying down next to me on the floor started looking at the ...
2nd day
... the Big C market to get chocolate and some snacks. And she wanted to go to KFC before going home because she didn't eat dinner and while she was eating, Evan and Joe saw us and walked into KFC and said they were going to the Big C so we decided to just go with them so we could all walk back together since it was dark. I was so happy to get home so I could shower!! The showers feel so good here. I hate being sticky the whole day. We have orientation tomorrow morning at 9 so ...
Back to Bangkok
... the royal palace. First we took a look in Phra Kaew, a temple with a gigantic statue of the Buddha lying inside. Between Phra Kaew and the palace another scammer tried to stop us, telling us that only Thai people were allowed in that day, but luckily a funny Irish woman walked past and shouted 'lies!' (she had apparently been scammed before and then gone in another time and being able to shout lies at one of the scammers had just made her day!) ...
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