Well we've made it to Bangkok, despite the best efforts of a bomb scare at Heathrow, and the luggage people taking an extra hour to load the plane. We got here yesterday afternoon and made it out for a few beers - in fact my lovely husband made it out for most of the night to watch th England game (with that dreadful result I bet he wishes he'...

Hi All We had a good night in Trat at our very cheap guest house, and got up and breakfasted leisurely the next morning (30th Nov). We then got taxis to the bus station which yet again involved getting on the back of motorbikes (scooters) with our large rucksacks on our backs, our day sacks on our fronts and I was also holding a carrier bag con...

Wow is all I can say for the last 8 days of my Thailand trip! As usual a short blog update will not do it justice but I will try to fill you in on as much as I can remember!!! The trip started with meeting all the other people on the tour - one moment stood out when the Northern Irish guy, Garth, introduced himself as "Hi i'm Garth, and I'm d...

On arrival into Bangkok we were greeted with humidity and smog but most of us were happy to be back. We caught some cabs back to the Viengtai hotel - our cab had a busted boot that wouldnt close - Laura and I kept looking behind us making sure our backpacks hadnt been tossed onto the road behind by his driving!  We said our goodbyes to ea...

Sheez, what a way to start the trip.  Bangkok is just the best.  It's 01h26 in the morning, we're just arrived back from Patpong and we're spent... Our flight on Eva air was amazing.  Enough leg room, great food, great service.  We arrived here (with Rob and Kath in tow) and booked into Viengtai Hotel which is in the road ...

1st to 5th August 2007 Well I finally made it to Bangkok after an 11 hour flight. Arrived at around 1600 local with another 40 minute wait in a queue to get through immigration and passport control. I decided to go for a taxi to get my hotel. Well it all started out OK until we hit the rush hour Bangkok traffic. It took another 2 hours f...

16th to 20th Sept 2007 Well I finally made it back to Bangkok today after a 12 hour bus journey from Siem Reap, Cambodia. The journey to the Cambodia/Thailand border was horrendous - pot holes all along the road. Good job the suspension on the bus stood up to the test. Once we got to Thailand it was like a different world, smooth roads a...

you may have guessed after 6 weeks in the country that i'm not a huge fan of thailand. infact i think that would be putting it extremely mildly.  infact i think thats just a ludicrous understatement.  im not a fan.  but today in a twist of fate centred mostly around the pakistan embassies refusal to provide me with a tourism visa ...

Entry 73 of a trip titled: Around the World 2007/08 - The Continued Intrepid Adventures of Nic

Welcome to my Travelogue :-)

VIENGTAI Hotel is a lovely hotel right in the heart of everything. We booked through asiarooms.com  Just a quick walk to Khao San road for their markets and close to the Grand Palace.  This complex is really something.  Very grand with lots of gold and lovely green well kept gardens.   When we finished we were greet...

Traveled today in 4 cars to the border post at Pailin. Neil and Hannah agreed to be separated and sat in separate cars......they are young and in love so a few hours apart is not so important as they have years to catch up. The car we sat in had an ever ready supply of mosquitoes.  Hannah and I spent ages trying to catch them all.  Th...

This entry is for the 5th to the 8th May At the end of our trip through the Mekong and into and through Cambodia, we  ended up in Bangkok and decided to book into a hotel for a few nights to regroup. We needed to regroup as we are now back by ourselves and making our own travel arrangments. The hotel is great and does have a pool to dip...

After what seemed to be ended days in the sun enjoying the beach and pool on Ko Samui I am now in busy, smoggy Bangkok. For a city with 10 million people this is quite an amazingly peaceful place but the traffic is quite amazing making the shortest trips a cut lunch affair. Helen and I stayed in a very swanky hotel "Siam @Siam Design" for her la...