An interesting day, that's for sure. We left our Bangkok Hotel at 11:15 A.M, confident that we had plenty of time to check in our bags and catch the 2:00 pm flight to Luang Prabang. Once we arrived at the Airport and checked the Departures Board we realised that 2:00 P.M. was the arrival time in Laos, not the departure time from Thailand!! Much panic ensued as by the time we:- * Attempted to check in our bags (which we didn't really need for one night in Bang...

Hi all, We left Brisbane yesterday [1/1/2015] with the flight taking off at 2:00 pm and landing just over 9 hours later in Bangkok. I got selected for an explosives check in Brisbane, just as I did in Sydney the other week. At least this time I didn't set off a (false) alarm as happened in Sydney - noice!! At the Airport in Bangkok Desley and I went through separate Customs lines - I had my photo taken by the authorities but she did not. I am starting to think...