our gap year

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Bangkok, Thailand

Laura, Danny and i have been in Thailand nearly a week and a half now and all its done is rained!

The first 4days were spent in Bangkok where i refused to email anyone or write my blog since the internet cost a ridiculous 8 pounds an hour! The pollution there is terrible and the tuk tuk drivers are a pain in the ass. They get commission for taking you to expensive shops so it takes ages to get where you want to go to and Danny ended up buying 6shirts. He got a couple of thousand baht off though and looks very smart in them so it wasnt so bad in the end.

The Grand Palace was beautiful but the temperature was 39 degrees so it was difficult to appreciate it properly. Plus my flip flop broke and my foot was burning all the way round, despite the protection given by Danny's sock so we left fairly quickly after that.

The night market was dirt cheap and lotsa fun for the first hour. Laura and i went for a massage because of the air conditioning after that and when we came out, Danny was nowhere to be found. After searching for an hour we went back to the twin towers hotel where we were staying and found him in the lobby. It turned out that he fell on his ass in the torrential rain looking for us after getting lost and was not in the mood for shopping after that so went back to get changed.

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