Day two in Bangkok started early with a trip out to the River Kwai. My tour bus driver picks me up not long after 0700 and we scurry across the street dodging traffic as we go. I seem to be the only person who speaks English as a first language but it's all good. Seems to be a habit of mine. Last time I was in Thailand I went white water rafting with a raft full of Russians but that's life overseas. The first stop on the tour was Kanchatburi war cemetery [inse...

As you know, my flight to Bangkok was delayed by about 2 hours due to "engineering problems" that took longer to rectify than expected. Turns out these problems were hydraulic problems. Rather essential parts of an aircraft. 3 stars to Qantas for identifying the problem and fixing it. The flight itself was nothing really out of the ordinary to be honest. We had some turbulence but nothing to leave claw marks in the arm rests or the arm of the person next to yo...

My flight was scheduled for 12:15 departure with boarding at 11:30. Delayed for some reason without explanation until 12:15 when it was announced there was some "engineering issues". That's swell "Ladies and gentleman, your inflight movie today will be 'WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIEEEE...!!". Announcement at 12:45 advises everyone of a further delay to 14:15 approximately and they'll be handing out meal vouchers. I love a free feed, I hope it's in the Qantas lounge b...

Due to the delays in Sydney my flight landed later than scheduled in Bangkok, getting in at about 21:00 local time or 00:00 Sydney time. I'd been up since 05:00 so I was pretty tired. Bangkok airport (Suvarhnabuhmi) is massive but quite easy to get about. I made my way fairly quickly through immigration, collected by backpack and made my way to the taxi rank. Now, I could have been adventurous and made use of the sky train however I was pretty damn tired and th...