Bangkok Part 2 Sun 24th Feb

So the next installment begins! Am currently uploading my photos to Snapfish as they didn't want to onto Facebook - i don't know why! Will try to upload some onto here but i can't promise anything, oh how i miss the days of IT being around to fix everything!!

Can't really remeber where i left off so sorry if i repeat myself! After the Internet Cafe yesterday i went to the pool coz my room was being cleaned and i wasn't really sure what else to do!! So spent the day trying (and failing) to get a tan and meeting people around the pool. Realised very quickly that this hotel was not really one where backpackers come, a little too upmarket I think! Anyway met soem Americans, Kerrr and Anne from West Virginia who were studying in Hong Kong so came over for a holiday - Makes Brighton look a bit dim!! They have offered me soemwhere to stay if i get that far in America! Always good!

Then i met Ghislaine a utter from Bethnal Green - such a laugh we got on really well and arrnaged to go for a massage later in the day, unfortuntely she was leaving on the night bus that evenng but we swapped emails and numbers and if i get to the Islands before she has left we are going to meet up. Also met a girl called Izzy from Windsor - just around the corner, knew Sunningdale very well as her mate who she is on holiday with lives there - Mummy and Daddy must have a few pennies!

After getting my amazing tan! Huh! i met Ghislaine and we went for a massage which cost... 4 quid!! Lasted and hour and was heaven! Can't be bad! Can't wait for my next one! So i sent her off on the bus and went to find soem new lodgings. Just along the Kho San Road was a place called D&D Inn and they had a room so i booked in there for Sunday night.

Later in the evening I had arranged to meet up with Zoe and go to Phat Pong district! When i told Izzy that was the plan she wanted to come so we met up, grabbed some noodles before we went and found a Taxi. This short, fat, sweaty and smelly driver told us it was closed but he knew of a place that was open! Ha bloody Ha, we had all ready the guide book about the scams and immediately got out and found another. I'm getting quite good at bahtering now, i think i'm actually getting a bit mean! Must remember that 10bht is 16p! Its just difficult when everyhting is so cheap and you know they are trying to take you for a ride!!

So anyway got out of the cab and walked straight into a market of fakes; T-shirts, trainers, tiffanys, bags, purses everyhting you could pretty much think of was there but fake! It was my idea of heaven but likily we got dragged into a bar before i could buy anything. WELL! We walked in to this club and looked up and infront of us was a stage with poles around it and women with no clothes on, nothing on! I really didn't know where to look!! They did soem very clever things with their umm, naughty bits (Sorry everyone but my Mum and Dad are reading this!! Love you guys!xx) We had candles being put out, bottles being opened, firec crackers being let off, flowers! It really was an education to say the least!!!

So anyway after about three quarters of an hour we had had enough and really didn't want the girls staring at us ay more it really was awkward! So we left and looked around the market. Lucikly i didn't have much money on me so we just had to come home!!! I will be going back for definate, although i think i shall forego the bar!

So this morning i got up about 8.30 and went to get some breakfast, i really do not understand the whole noodles in the morning thing! Yuck yuck! Anyway had breakky and checked out, after not being able to fit anything back into my rucksac - seriously it was not good! Dad i need you to be here to pack it everytime! Apparently i'll get better, Yeah i can see that happening! Went off to meet Zoe for our trip to the Grand Palace. Zoe hadn't been well in the night and hadn't had any breakfast so we decided to go for a cuppa and then be on our way. Well poor Zoe had about two mouthfuls of Crossaint and was sick everywhere. NOw as some of you know i do not have a strong stomach and so i struggled to help her and not be sick myself! What a bloody nightmare!! Anyway i mopped her up and took her to the loos where she was sick again, i had to take a step back, infact its making me feel a bit queezy thinking about it!

So she said she still wanted to go so we got a Tuc Tuc - incase she needed to be sick!!! Yes Nish a tuc tuc! I rode the real thing OH yeah!!So we got to the Grand Palace and set ourselves up with a guide who was lovely - Jackie. She told us where to stand fpr the best photo. shouted at people when they got in the way of our photo, gave us regular stops and water. Everywhere should have a Jackie! The Palace was amzing - me being the snapper that i am took loads of photos or "click click" as Jackie was saying all day!

After the palace she asked where we were going, we had no idea so she suggested the river and took us there as it was her lunch break. On our way there she brought us water - filled up my Camelback bladder (The most brilliant thing ever!!) brough us fried banana from the side street, got us these flannel things to cool us down, she was then going to get some strawberries but i said no it was too much. So we went through a load of back streets. I must admit at one point i was a bit worried but i had my stanley knife at the ready to stab as twist as you taught me Salter!! (Does more damage incase you didn't know!) But we got to the Jetty and paid 1600 btht which is less then 20quid and it was just me and Zoe in a longboat, they gave us bread and we were on our way. We went to the Canal barges temple, we fed Cat fish in the river, went to the floating market (although most of it had gone as we were late) and then were dropped off at the recling Buddah. Which we didn't end up going in but i am going to do another day. So it was a lovely day all in all.

I then went back for my rucksac ad walked the streets to get to my new home - i met soem fellow girls struggling with backpacks along the way and we all moaned about them being heavy!! Such Girls! The new place is interesting - i will definately be using my sleep bag liner to sleep in and its very different to my previous lodgings but i'm working down slowly! It still has a pool which is the main thing!

Anyway my phtotos have finished loading now so i am going to go back to the hotel and chill out, maybe watch something on my Ipod as i'm tired!

Probably wont be such a long installment next time but seeing as its only cost me 80p i don't think i'll worry too much!

Love to all xx