I do love travel. What a contrast to Brazil but still the same buzz. Arrived in Bangkok yesterday afternoon and our room overlooks the river, sky misty with pollution from the constant traffic jams and cooking on street stalls. A variety of boats ply the river, small oriental boats are the hotel ferries, fancy for the tourists, plainer ferries for locals and longtail boats, long and sleek with the long trailing rudder which i assume givs them the name and long di...