Well we're here safely. Flights went well with no hick ups, me and Tom bought a little bottle of whiskey for the plane which helped us sleep. Also we found some seats empty next to the door so we had them which had loads of legroom.
The taxi ride from the airport was interesting, I think the driver thought he was in a film being chased by police! Weaving in and out of traffic like a mad man!
We arrived at khao San road which was nuts, the most hustling and bustling place I have ever been too, street lined with bars, restaurants, street food vendors. We found a hotel on khao San road for £5 each a night, with aircon, WiFi and cold shower. The people are mainly backpackers from all over the world. We met two lesbian sisters from Brighton, we ended up having a few drinks with them. We ate a deep fried and salted scorpion! What was going to be a quiet few drinks in the bar opposite ended up being a pretty heavy night, got back to hotel at 4ish.
Today we went to the grand palace where the emerald Buddha lives. It was a shoes off job to walk through the monastery. Interesting to see a completely different building to a church back home, it was colourful with mosaic tiles and gold leaf coatings. On the way to the palace the tuk tuk driver took us past the demonstration sites. It was like a scene from a film, behind the barbed wire and sandbags were overturned cars, vans and coaches! All with smashed Windows etc. We wont be heading down there at night!!!!!
Temperature is over 30 degrees in the day and very humid!
Tonight we are going to head into town, get some food and maybe go and find one of the open air markets Bangkok is famous for.
Bye for now.
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