Saturday 23rd April - This morning Dan was a very lazy b****** and stayed in bed so Jamie had to have breakfast with a fat, ugly Ozzie brer. After waiting ages for a taxi and being rejected on several occasions for reasons we did not understand, we bode farewell to Boonsiri place and made for Viengtai Hotel where we would start our tour.  In the afternoon, we headed into central Bangkok to visit MBK shopping centre, which (just our luck) was closed due to a f...

Today was unimaginably hot! This was discovered when we left our air-conditioned room and both our glasses steamed up from the sheer wall of heat! As we walked towards the Grand Palace, we were approached by a friendly fella by the name of Chaing (the guru). Now Chaing loved to talk (a common trait amongst Thai's) and, unprovoked, he planned our day for us; drawing on our map and helping us with our Thai pronounciation. Taking heed of the guru's advice, we bec...

After saying goodbye and a quite legendary 11 hour flight (Quantas are heroes), we were greeted in sunny Bangkok airport by a host of over-eager fraud merchants wanting to rip us off as much as they could.? Much to Dan's displeasure, J managed to convince him to not to hitch a lift with a Thai ladyboy, but to get a taxi for an eighth of the price.? The journey to central Bangkok was highly interesting.??We must state that a large proportion of it was spent lo...