Hello again from monsoony Bangkok!! Since I last updated, we have been inundanted with heavy monsoon rain, including a thunderstorm last night that woke us both up and convinced us that it was actually thundering and lightning inside our room! Yesterday we went off to visit the temples - and being good respectful little girls we had dressed appropriately, ie. proper shoes and trousers. Not only was this very hot, but once the rain had truly started it was also very soggy! We got as far as Wat Pho, and the reclining Buddha (which is amazing) before the rain started. We tried waiting it out, but it wasn't showing any signs of stopping, so we ended up dashing about the wat from shelter to shelter, trying to admire the temple through the rain! We then walked all the way around the perimeter wall of the Grand Palace looking for the entrance, only to discover it had closed 15 minutes before. Great. So now we were soaked, and also disappointed. So, lets just give it up as a bad job we think, and get a taxi back to the nice dry hotel. So in we jump, give the name of the hotel......and the taxi driver tells us to get out. Nice. Why, we still don't understand, but he was pretty definite! So we had to get in a death-defying tuk tuk for the journey back, which is fun but a little nerve wracking, and offers very little protection against the rain! It proceeded to rain for the entire rest of the afternoon, so we ended up settling down in front of the movie channel - a cop out, I know! Today we went to Bangkok's famous Weekend Market. To my disappointment, I didn't manage to get much, but Sarah shopped for us both! The market itself is very cool, and there are thousands of shops selling everything you could think of. But about half past one, we felt that slight breeze that is known so well to us now as a rain wind, and sure enough, 5 minutes later the heavens opened. Like everyone else, we immediately ran indoors to shelter, but within about ten minutes, we were ankle deep in water inside the market! The rain was torrential, and the poor drains had obviously not recovered from the night before. Some of the roads outside were up to knee deep in floods! After about an hour inside, with little sign of the rain abating, we decided just to brave it and try and get home - at least today we had on shorts and flip flops so didn't need to worry quite so much about getting wet! We got the bus to the market, but for the life of us couldn't work out where to get it from to get home, so we thought we'd splash out on a taxi. But no, no taxi driver would pick us up. I don't know if its just us, or if its everyone, but I'm starting to feel a bit offended! So of course we ended up in another tuk tuk for the half hour journey home, with a kamikaze driver who just didn't care that he was steaming through a foot of water and as such that his poor passengers were getting soaked! But we made it, and so did our shopping so thats the most important thing. Tomorrow we're off to Kanchanaburi, home of the Bridge over the River Kwai, and we're hoping to go back and do the Grand Palace before we go, so better not stay out too late tonight!