Back in Bangkok, if you are ever here try 'Suk11' backpackers lodge on Sukhumvit Road Soi 11, it is a great place. In the style of old Thai wooden rooms off corridors that remind you of something out of Dickens. The area is great too. We are sitting in a restaurant called 'Cabbages and Condoms' which is one of a small chain in Asia promoting safe sex. The lampshades, table decorations and most other things are made of - you guessed it - condoms.
Christmas presents for home sorted!
Did the tourist thing today visiting the 'Grand Palace' and 'Wat Pho', pretty impressive and we didn't get ripped either, funny how soon you feel like old hands, we even gave some poor guy advice about the 'Tuk Tuk' drivers, "Oh yes, you have to be careful about who you talk to. When you have been in Bangkok as long as we have....."
Had a great hair cut yesterday, I now have less hair than the budhist monks! She kept giggling as she removed all evidence of hair from my head, in my ears and up my nose, I wasn't expecting that! All for 200 baht (rip).
Off to the 'Bridge over the River Kwai' tomorrow, the area is supposed to be beautiful but the railway was built at a huge cost. I seem to be contemplating the contrast between the beauty of the country and the negative impact of mankind a lot at the moment.
It is Sue's birthday next week so we have booked in to a swish hotel right on the river for 2 nights. I won't tell you the price as the act of writing it down would be too shameful but heh you are only ..... once! Bless her, she deserves it for putting up with me, I wouldn't.
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