This morning with a very thick head from the cocktails the night before I got up at 6:45am to go to the floating market. What I didn't realise was that it was a 1hr 30min minibus drive there. We arrive and get put in boats and headed down the river (apparently the same boats that James Bond sailed in, in the film 'The Man with the Golden Gun', wouldn't have a clue as I've never watched it). We then swapped boats later down the river and floated through the market...

So day 2 started earlier then expected when my room buddies decided to come home rather drunk at 5am!! Spent the morning with a walk around part of Bangkok, some how stumbling across the 'Golden Mount' which I decided to take a look at, not realising the amount of steps that would get me eventually to the top. Sweaty is an understatement, I was drenched by the time I got all the way up. There were lots and lots of Buddhas on the way up and within the temple at th...

So I arrive at Bangkok airport feeling totally confused about where I am going and what I am doing, but follow the crowd (until I see the smoking room and stop for a nerve calming cigarette). I head to immigration where I filled in the card, no idea if it was correct or not but joined the ten mile queue and hoped for the best. Immigration guy didn't even look at it stamped my passport and waved me through, I was now the proud owner of a 30 day Thai visa. Things w...

Flight E010 from London Gatwick to Dubai took off at , only a short delay. This plane is serious stuff, it's HUGE I'm sat next to the stairs to upstairs which is business/first class I can't imagine what it's like up. Down here in economy class is proper posh (Mum you'd love this), my seat is like an armchair, I can stretch my legs out, I have plug socket to charge my phone (if I hadn't packed it in my backpack), a blanket, pillow, wifi, internet, telephone the l...