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So, instead of just updating you with where i am, what colour underwear i am wearing today and what i had for breakfast i thought this blog entry could cover some of the more amusing stories from our time in thailand so far. For those who are interested though we are on Koh Pangan at the moment, blue and banana pancakes!
To start it off i've upload a photo of a ute we saw on the way back from the brifdge over the river kwai. Whilst on our way back and tailgaiting an ambulance responding to an emergency (is this immoral? If not it certainly was when our minibus driver under took the ambulance!) we spotted these for dudes in the back of their ute. I spent ages trying to get a photo of them but with no luck so this one will have to do. Anyhow, the four chaps are obviously butchers or farmers (can't you tell from the photo?) and are delivering their produce to Bangkok. There are no seats in the back of the ute instead it is piled high with pig carcasses with these four chaps sat on top. To top it all off the were sitting with there feet/grubby boots on top of all the meat....i knoew there must be a reason lonely planet said to watch out for dodgy meat!
Now that we had an aprreciation of the local fare we made it our mission to find good thai food! the next night we were in an excellent little thai restaurant. After ordering an unknown but excellent crab dish we had a chat to the owner. Soon after the owner and his friends sat down to eat their dinner. I couldn't help but notice the irony as us two english backpackers enjoyed the finest Thai food whilst the proud restauranter showed off his fine english quisine and served his chums some hearty egg sandwhiches. ha.
Last story (for those who haven't already got fed up of my rambling) is that of the street seller and the french backpacker. Having packed all my stuff for south america i arrived in thailand with walking boots and enough thermals to keep me warm somewhere really cold! anyways, it is mega hot and none of it is usuful so i am stuck carting all of it around taking up precious space for all the fake sunglasses and t-shirts i have bought! anyways, i needed some boardies as hiking trousers just weren't working for me. Whilst haggling the price down a french guys joins in trying to help me out with a rather stuborn thai lady! The price she is asking for is extortionate, she knows it, me and ems know it and so does the frech guys! We tell the shop keeper this and she starts to get a bit shirty. assuming this is all part of the sales pitch we keep on trying haggle for a better deal. with a last offer from the frenchy she snaps, grabs a taser from the store next door and chases our of the stall with the little red dot of the taser firmly aimed between our shoulder blades.....lucky escpae!
Anyways enough for now, hope it wasn't too boring!
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