One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster . . . . . well, so goes the song by Murray Head from the musical Chess, but as we had two nights in Bangkok then who knows? After arriving at Hua Lamphong railway station we dodged the traffic after finding our bearings and headed across to the Prime Hotel Central Station. The hotel was just a few hundred yards from the station, but with the need to cross at least four roads to get there. Once checked into th...

It was not by design, or part of our original plan but we ended up Rememberence Sunday travelling on the ''Death Railway", part of the Thailand - Burma railway, that was built during World War 2 by allied Prisoners of War. With around 6,000 British troops being amongst the estimated 100,000 people (American, Australian, Dutch, Malay troops and countless 'coolies' from India and China) who died at the hands of the Japanese it is a sobering journey as you travel fr...

Starting the eight weeks away with Krabi was a very good choice! Not really being 'sitting on a beach' kind of people, but more of 'sitting overlooking a beach with a drink' kind of people meant that Krabi pretty much did what we wanted and eased us nicely into the plus seven hour time difference to the UK. There was also enough to keep us busy too whether that be walking, taking a bus to the main town, enjoying a pleasant meal with a cool drink or even planning ...

I cannot get the 1984 song performed by Murray Head, One night in Bangkok, off my mind especially as we only have one night in Bangkok this time around. Interestingly the song, which comes from the musical Chess was written by Tim Rice along with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame - something I was unaware of until writing this blog entry. Our trip to the Far East started with a flight with Emirates Airlines from Birmingham to Dubai departing at 13...