Welcome to Bangkok

After about 19 hours of travelling, I arrived. Both Rachelle and I are exhausted and jet lagged. Getting up at 05:45 for a taxi to London Heathrow, and eight and a half hour flight to Mumbai, India, and then another four hour flight to Bangkok with an hour taxi to the hotel has a way of taking it out of you. The first flight was fine - I watched No Strings Attached, Gulliver's Travels and Tron, we had three seats between the two of us because the flight was fairly empty, two Indian meals and it was comfortable. The second flight however was horribly cramped and hot, I couldn't sleep because of the discomfort. When we finally got to the hotel, which was at 08:30 local time, I fell straight to sleep. 


When we both awoke there were some things we had to do;
1) Find a cash-point
2) Find an internet cafe
3) Find a shop for water - there are seven elevens everywhere!
4) Find a restaurant


We did all this with ease. The internet cafe cost 30 Baht, the water 14 and the food came to 510. I think we went to an expensive restaurant. I had Thai green curry (obviously) and Rachelle had Pad Thai with cocktails.


After completing those tasks we headed back to the hotel so that we could drop off our things and venture out for a few drinks before bed time - most of the day had past us by earlier whilst we were asleep. The hotel is nice, perhaps the nicest we've seen here. It's situated a couple of minutes from Khaosan Road. We spent a lot of time looking for the renowned road and I often though, 'this must be it', but trust me, you know when you've found it. It's a very busy road filled with stalls, bars and local Thais asking you if you want to buy a suit for 2000 Baht or go to a ping pong show... whatever that is. It's a cool place and is filled with tourists. After walking up and down it for a while we chose a bar and I had a beer for 60 Baht, which is about one pound twenty. Not surprisingly, the beer was out of date. We then moved on and looked around, finding another street which was much quieter and quainter for another 60 Baht large Chang beer. Chang beer is the Thai beer here.


I'll admit that on the walk home I was feeling a little tipsy (the beer was 6.4% after all) and after a short wrestle with Rachelle we fell asleep.