City of Culture (the infectious kinds)

Trip Start May 26, 2004

Trip End Ongoing

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Flag of Thailand Bangkok, Thailand
Friday, May 28, 2004

We arrived in Thailand after our flight a bit tired but still excited. We had the foresight to check our luggage straight through to Thailand as we had to stop in Blighty for a flight change and didn't fancy lugging our bags through the airport. Seemed like a good idea at the time!! (Am I the only one who didn't know Blighty was Ingerland?? Fi)
However, when we arrived in the airport and successfully located my bag - but not Fiona's - it seemed like less of a good idea!! We went to talk to the lost luggage people and they said they would locate it and courier it to us. As we were only staying there for two nights we were a bit worried that it wouldn't arrive in time. Due to the last minute packing I mentioned earlier, Fi had no clothes in her carry on bag and literally only had the clothes on her back. We were offered 1000 baht as emergency funds. This worked out at about 25 euro which in hindsight would have gotten quite a bit in Thailand, all "designer", but at the time it didn't seem like a whole lot

Another view from our hotel

. I have to admit Fi handled it well. She didn't swear once, I don't think (I was busy being smugly fully clothed up!!) So we left the airport is less than good spirits.
We got to our hotel and it was Spanky!!! (notice the capital S, that's how spanky it was) but we could only sit in the room the first night cos Fi had no clothes, plus we were pretty tired. Thankfully her clothes arrived the next day. We went out to look around the next night and saw Bangkok in all it's glory. We were only out 5 minutes before being invited to our first sex show. A banana and darts show and the guy even did the pftt pftt sound effects. Fiona wanted to go in but I said hell no!! Then we were molested in the local market-literally grabbed and pulled by the traders to buy something. Strangely nothing was "5 for 50" and I think that freaked me out the most (Though I'm sure 5 women for 50 could've been arranged!!!). We made a sharp exit and returned to the hotel. We had a nice dinner and a swim and relaxed.
After this we met up with Gar. He was out here with a couple of friends before us, and now had a Thai girlfriend PJ, so knew his way around so we went for a few local beers. It was an experience!! All of the bar girls were all over the ugliest, fattest guys and we saw some really old, i'm talking a bag of wrinkles with eyes and false teeth old, walking around with teenage Thai girls.
We had a quick game of spot the she male which Fi lost miserably. I think it is just male intuition to make sure you don't eye up a "bloke" that kept Gar and I ahead on this one!
So the first leg of our trip started badly but ended well. Mostly cos we were leaving Bangkok. Undoubtedly one of the sleaziest, scummiest places on earth!!