Well again. Just been for a dander about the town and for several more beers - some nice barmaids about the bars here (wink wink, know what i mean!!)!! Had to write this in now or we'll forget about it. On the way back from bar, met an elephant crossing the road! There were two dudes with him and one inticing him with a tray of fruit over the ro...

Today I say good-bye to China, to Lily our tour guide, to the tour group - bus yellow 5, to Shanghai, and more importantly to my Dad and family. But first, one more exciting event. We take the Electro-Magnetic train to the airport. It is much faster than the bullet train in Germany. It flies above the rails at 431 km/hour which is about 270 mile...

Hi All, I hope you are all well. I am good apart from the fact that I have somehow managed to get a cold in the 30 degree heat!!! Sorry about not updating the blog sooner, but I didn't really have the chance in Bangkok - It's a bit of a party city! I couldn't sleep at all on the 10+ hours flight from Heathrow, so I was knackered when I landed in...

First few days I spent with Jamie. Visiting Standing Buddha, Lying Buddha, Grand Buddha and on our way to the palace and the Emerald Buddha, which where closed for the day. We also strolled through Chinatown after using the river taxi, which is the best way of getting around in BKK, and cheap. The Christmas-feeling was zero and never really got ...

Hallo ihr Lieben, nach einem kurzen Flug sind wir gest**n gut in Bangkok angekommen. Uns** Hotel ist ganz in Ordnung, obwohl es natu**lich nicht den Standard uns**es Hotels in K.L. hat. Bangkok ist - im Gegensatz zu K.L. und Singapur - ein "richtig asiatische" Stadt, mit allem was dazugeho**t: Chaos, Dreck, La**m, Strassenkuechen, Ma**kte und Te...

Arrived here Khao San Rd at 2.30am after a struggle not to get ripped off in the taxis, we ended up sharing with a couple of English lads which made the 30 min cab fair about 1 pound each! Shambarra hostel was lovely and the English lads decided to stay aswell. Apart from shopping, eating and drinking we also went on a tour to the bridge over th...

Oh, it was so nice to sleep in a real bed after a week in the Australian bush!! Real pillows, real duvet... Heaven! To be fair, we had actually got used to sleeping "like that" on the top of the bunk because it was so hot whilst David was freezing on the bottom bunk because the air conditioning and the fan that we acquired in Katherine (we thoug...

<B>Monday November 20th </B> Bangkok Got up and after breakfast, we headed out to the US Embassy. We hailed a cab and this time decided to use the meter. We probably should have experimented on a shorter trip, but we figured we would give it a go. This was a bit further than our trip the night before to Patpong. (It seemed like a twe...

10 April - Monday A last early morning rise in Ao Nang Paradise Resort, packed up our bags, ate a quick breakfast and took off on our flight to Bangkok. While flying we realised that everything about the plane was different and it suddenly dawned on us that on our flight to Krabi we had been upgraded to Business Class. What annoyed us though was...

Sawade kaaah (hello --from a girl) By my second day in Bangkok I was already planning my return trip. I don't know how to describe it exactly, but it is like thailand feels like the home you were always looking for yet it is so foreign at the same time. It gets under your skin right away. and you find yourself following the scents of sweet but s...