Soooooooooooo!

I've left England and the comfort of my special Alphabet pillow, but I'm just about getting by.

We've been in Bangkok since Tuesday evening and it's now Friday night. We leave first thing in the morning for an island called Ko Samet, which is East of Bangkok.

I'll try and keep this short and as interesting as possible.

Bangkok and a couple of observations:

This place smells. Badly.

The traffic is like London, but the road behaviour is ridiculous. Everyone cuts up everyone else. If you leave Bangkok without being in a car crash, you are EXTREMELY lucky. We consider ourselves lucky we were only in one (crash).




The fresh orange juice tastes like cordial. It probably is cordial.





Seriously though guys, this place is unlike anywhere we've ever been to before and for that we are grateful. It really is an fascinating place, that indicates a huge gulf in quality of life for the various Thai people here. A lot of cars on the road are pretty new and really quite nice. The rest are pretty crap.

We went to the floating market today, which is crazy, but we wish we could show you the video we did of this Cobra show. It was stupid and would be band in 2 seconds back home. This guy slaps a Cobra on the head to 'make him angry'. Then this guy catches 2 deadly snakes in each arm. There is one snake left to catch however. How? With his teeth of course. Idiots. It wasn't an area protected behind bullet proof glass. Those snakes could and wanted to kill us.








In Thailand it seems (rightly), that the man is the best. Rather than giving the menu to Beth first at a meal etc, I always get first dibs. It was raining yesterday during a tour and this guy followed me and Beth to the car with a huge umbrella. We were getting into different sides of the car though, so he followed me! Ha! One of the many reasons I love this place.

So I'll stop boring you all now.

Hope you like the pictures.

Keep in touch,

Burns