I can't stand the air-conditioning anymore. It hurts my throat, the chill is terrible, and worst of all I get a headache every time I enter a building. The air is dry, you feel the sweat built up outside condense on your skin, knowing that sooner or later you'll get a fever. Right now I just wait outside the shops until the women - Remko & Michel - are done. It's better this way. Especially big cities like Bangkok are bad during the day. The heat just ric...

Thailand. The land of a thousand smiles. Better said, the land of a thousand thugs... smiling. The view of Asia that has been so carefully crafted everywhere I've been so far has been crushed within a day. Perhaps I am slightly biased and it's just Bangkok that's so terrible, I'll have to see. I am not surprised cab-drivers of any kind try to rip you off. It's in their blood, no matter if it's on sea or on land, so it was no surprise to have to force the tax...