Day 1 - 2nd May

Arrived into Bangkok about 4.00pm. Getting through the airport was a task! The amount of people that approach you is pretting daunting especially when you're on your own and dodgy looking men are asking if you need a taxi! I'd read about these people so headed for the official taxi rank and went straight to the hotel where I met up with my travel pal Cheryl. The first 3 nights we'd booked to stay at Boonsiri Place... an ok hotel but nothing like what was shown on the internet. Once we'd freshened up we headed for Kaosam Road where we were recommended to go as this is the place to be for backpackers. It has a long stretch of bars, restaurants and clubs (yes Elaine it didn't take me long to find these!) We celebrated the start of our adventure in a nice little bar with a well needed bottle of Heineken. The smell in Bangkok is awful and when there are lots of food stalls around it really isn't very appealling to be buying anything from them so I haven't been brave enough to do that yet! Walking through streets on the first night was definitely a culture shock and what done it for me was seeing women out late begging with babies on their laps! We were pretty jet lagged so was an early night for us and after a couple of drinks were back to our room for a well needed sleep.