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so we went to ko phangan, did a bit of snorkelling which was cool, met an lovely welsh girl called hannah who's been loads of different places & eaten spiders & snakes an all sorts of weird things... she & i went for a thai massage which feelis a bit like being beaten up & mine was done by a ladyboy which amused us greatly.
decided we'd had enough of the island thing so jumped an overnight bus to bangkok. missed out on a seat so got to curl up on a couch thing in the VIP area, quite snug only to be turfed out onto the khao san rd at 5am, quite a rude awakening!
bangkok wasn't quite what i'd expected, though i'm not entirely sure what i was expecting? all we did was a lot of shopping really... pirate dvds, brightly coloured tshirts, headphones. oh yeah, we saw sweeney todd at the cinema, you have to stand up for the national anthem and a photo montage of the king, plus they fuzzed out all the good gory throatslitting parts & the label on the bottle when the boy is drinking gin... i guess childhood alcoholism isn't encouraged in thailand?!
other highlights included:
- the little boy pooing on the pedestrian overpass
- the cabbages & condoms restaurant - tasty foods AND a free condom with your bill at the end plus lots of things made from condoms, lamps, dresses, pirate ships
- fortune telling buddha slot machines... mine was the best, lots of good things coming my way apparently, yay!
- high speed local buses that career along the roads, take all corners on only two wheels, screech to a halt to let you off & start driving away before your feet have even touched the ground. very efficient indeed.
- weird lady from northern england who accosted us on a traffic island, foaming at the mouth & babbling about missing her nephew's wedding. when i said i was from nz she complimented me on how fluently i spoke english!
now we are in chiang mai after our train bunk beds adventure. i had freaky dreams which included someone stealing all our peanut butter but i didn't fall out of the bed which was my main fear.
it's ncie up here, cooler, quieter & much less hassle than bangkok. have seen lots of shiny gold buddhas & temples, watched some kids skateboarding, seen loads of monks in their orange & yellow gears. tomorrow we're learning thai cookery, productive! no guarantees that i'll be able to recreate any of it later but some of you might get lucky!
decided we'd had enough of the island thing so jumped an overnight bus to bangkok. missed out on a seat so got to curl up on a couch thing in the VIP area, quite snug only to be turfed out onto the khao san rd at 5am, quite a rude awakening!
bangkok wasn't quite what i'd expected, though i'm not entirely sure what i was expecting? all we did was a lot of shopping really... pirate dvds, brightly coloured tshirts, headphones. oh yeah, we saw sweeney todd at the cinema, you have to stand up for the national anthem and a photo montage of the king, plus they fuzzed out all the good gory throatslitting parts & the label on the bottle when the boy is drinking gin... i guess childhood alcoholism isn't encouraged in thailand?!
other highlights included:
- the little boy pooing on the pedestrian overpass
- the cabbages & condoms restaurant - tasty foods AND a free condom with your bill at the end plus lots of things made from condoms, lamps, dresses, pirate ships
- fortune telling buddha slot machines... mine was the best, lots of good things coming my way apparently, yay!
- high speed local buses that career along the roads, take all corners on only two wheels, screech to a halt to let you off & start driving away before your feet have even touched the ground. very efficient indeed.
- weird lady from northern england who accosted us on a traffic island, foaming at the mouth & babbling about missing her nephew's wedding. when i said i was from nz she complimented me on how fluently i spoke english!
now we are in chiang mai after our train bunk beds adventure. i had freaky dreams which included someone stealing all our peanut butter but i didn't fall out of the bed which was my main fear.
it's ncie up here, cooler, quieter & much less hassle than bangkok. have seen lots of shiny gold buddhas & temples, watched some kids skateboarding, seen loads of monks in their orange & yellow gears. tomorrow we're learning thai cookery, productive! no guarantees that i'll be able to recreate any of it later but some of you might get lucky!