Sawadee Had a really relaxing day yesterday as we have pretty much covered all the Bangkok sights in our 2 visits here and we spent the day round the pool reading and catching up with diary entries (rock and roll) But there was a purpose for this we were saving ourselves for the theatre, yes last night we visited the theatre and watched an amazing show. Our chauffeur collected us and we had these giant armchair like chairs to sit in.The minivan was like a rock ...

Sawadee Hi Everyone, I thought I would bring you up to speed with the latest activity from Bangkok. Yesterday (11th) we left Bangkok for the morning and took a 1h 30m drive to the oldest floating market in this area. Our guide collected us at 7am and we headed off in the minivan. As usual we were only going for about 5 minutes and we needed to stop for fuel, our guide was very bossy and seemed to be doing a hundred things at once, one of which was giving 2 girl...

Hi Guys When we left you last we were preparing to leave Laos, after leaving Vientiane we picked up our minibus (rickshaw) for the 20km ride to the border. The guards stamped us out of the country and all of a suden the 2500 kip fee to leave had jumped to 3000 kip in a breath!!! Thai immigration was a breeze then it was on to Nong Khai to connect with the overnight train to Bangkok. All the 1st class sleepers had sold out so we ended up in 2nd class a/c which w...

Sabaidee Today we leave behind the landlocked country of Laos and head out over the Friendship Bridge and back into Thailand to Nong Khai. From Nong Khai we pick up the overnight train which will take us all the way back to Bangkok. Our time in Laos has been OK but not our favourite country, although the people have been friendly there has not been enough to keep us occupied everyday and we are so used to being on the go. That said it has been nice to move at a...

Sabai Dee We were back on the sight seeing trail today and after a late breakfast we prepared to do battle with the army of Tuk Tuk drivers eyeballing us from up the road.The battle lines were drawn and we were ready but we got the nicest Tuk Tuk driver ever and didn't even have to haggle over a price.In we hopped and for once whizzed along the streets of Vientiane towards our destination 4km outside the city. Pha That Luang is the most important national monum...