24-26 April

The following day we waited for the bus to Bangkok at 6pm, we had deemed it safe to visit after alot of consideration because of all the attacks and the protests occuring there at the time.

The bus arrived in Bangkok at 5am and we checked into a hotel that I stayed in last time I was in Bangkok with my friends. We got a few hours sleep and then pottered around the Khao San Road picking up Adam some medicine as he was still ill.

At night I decided to take Adam to the infamous Patpong. I don't like the place much, but they say it is one of those things you have to do.

Patpong is a rough place where all the sex and ping pong shows take place.

We were ushered into a club by a man who said we would only have to pay for two expensive beers to stay inside, so we went in.

The girls were dancing about in the nude doing rude tricks with their bodily orifices to appease the crowd. It made me sad to see.

These women weren't like strippers back home, you could pay them for sex and alot of them were taking drugs whilst on stage. We quickly finished drinks and tried to leave. We got the bill not for four pounds as we had expected, but for over 100 pounds.

We said we wouldn't pay and said that that was not what we agreed to. The women bouncers started screaming in my face and shoving me against a wall. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been in a fight and I am rubbish in arguments.

Adam stepped in front of me and started shouting, a woman stood by the door ensuring that we couldn't escape. I told them I would tell the other westerners what they were up to and they threatened to get the mafia to come and see us. I wanted to cry so much, but I knew I had to stay strong, they weren't going to win.

Adam took out his phone and told them he was going to call the police and started to phone the number and they let us go after five minutes of this. I went down the stairs and Adam followed and got punched in the arm, on the way out.

We ran a few streets and went to a bar and I had a cry, I had never been spoken to like that in my whole life, what horrible people.

We made our way back to the backpacker area and had a few drinks a Turkish Shisha pipe and then went to bed.

The next day we were too hungover to anythin, so we watched crappy tv all day and ate junk food.

The following day we went to see the Royal Palace in the morning and Adam got snap happy with his new camera. Then we decided to go to the cinema and chill out, after which we headed back to the hotel and we caught a bus and then a boat over to the island of Koh Phangan. I couldn't wait for the sea especially after Bangkok.

I did have a good time in Bangkok, it is a crazy place, but after visiting it ten times in my life I think and I hope that that will be the last time I will ever be there.