Bangkok - its all here!

Hot City of Bangkok (30degrees)

Arrived and have found a hotel on Khao San Road, ie the place where all the action is. Yes, it is noisy, so much so the bar music didn’t enable me to get to sleep until way past 4am. I have never been to sleep at that time, never mind when yer an old man. God the music was loud and I am deaf!! I have moved rooms, so hopefully less din tonight.

Still not right in my tummy, seems I have a dreaded bug from SA, but will persist with starvation until tomorrow and see how I am then. I never realised a British tummy could be so sensitive. It is a bit of a drawback, but this place in comparison to India is heaven.

The people still want a slice of your dollar, but it is so much easier here. People aren’t always hassling you for a tut-tut. However, these drivers still operate on commission, and really I can’t be arsed with it, so a taxi is the better option (metered) and cheap. Around 2km for £1.

The market stalls outside my hotel are a shoppers delight, bargains although they are likely to be fakes are for sale at a fraction of the western world price, Ralph Lauren polo shirts for 180 Baht, that’s £3.5 to you and me. Sunglasses, jewellery, bras (I don’t need one for my man boobs yet) flip flops, shoes, made to measure ‘italian’ suits. Italian in Bangkok is a bit of a contradiction, but I will go with it! Cds (okay Del and Rodney copies) DVDs, swimwear, its all here within 10 metres of each other.

The city is not riddled with animals, nor pipping of horns, and it has modern achitecture amidst the old temples, which are what you imagined them to look like. Found in the Wat Traimit temple is the golden buddha - 3m high of solid gold. And the Wat Pho Temple is enormous and is the oldest temple here with the the reclining buddha which is 45m long, amaziiiing. These are places which should be on any visit here.

Even more amazing, nay stranger thing is, British blokes walking round with young Thai totty. The blokes are older, some are even younger than me and it makes me feel sad that these people have to ‘find a partner’ out here. Surely it can’t be love? And some of the totty is lovely to look at, enough to make a man jealous! I mean the silver haired brigade dating….

See some early pics.

Wat Traimit temple

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