Everyone says you need three days for Angkor Wat, and after reading up about it that sounds about right, so that’s what we plan to do. With five days/four nights booked here, we decided to use day one to chill a bit after the ordeal of yesterday, and set off for the National Museum as […]
Many Buddhas, and much other beauty besides Read More »
Great song by The Dead Kennedys, always comes to mind when I think of Cambodia. Which, to be fair, isn’t often. Anyway, with that dealt with, our last day in Thailand/first in Cambodia has been almost entirely free of excitement, adventure, or anything else worth writing about, other than the utter uselessness of our bank,
Holiday in Cambodia Read More »
Well, we’ve pretty much done the main touristy bits of Bangkok, and we were also wary of the weather – once again, it was promising to be an absolute belter of a day, with afternoon temperatures in the mid-late 30s, and feeling hotter. Surveying our options, and with at least a thought on my need
Super markets and some damn fine finds Read More »
After two days battling the tourist hordes, doing the culture innit, and gasping in the sun, we decided it was time for a day of (at least partial) rest. Also V needed a new t-shirt. So off we went to the Paragon Centre – a massive complex of not one but three vast shopping centres,
From hot to shop to RIP flip-flop Read More »
Though we’ve spent the day visiting wonderful sites from old Bangkok, I can’t resist heading today with this, Rama VIII bridge, which is just downstream from where we catch the river bus, and which I’ve been admiring since we arrived. I had a few minutes earlier sent this to the lads, commending its elegance and
Some things old, something new Read More »
In truth, The Grand Palace is a bit overwhelming. It’s just so vast, and so intricate, and so much. One staggering building has another nestling right next to it, and behind them, well, there’s a couple more. Your reel, and reel, and reel again. You get a bit lost. And you get hot and bothered.
Grand trip to the palace, Gromit Read More »
In the event, it ended up being not too bad a night on the train. Some long sleepless patches, but I’d expected that, and overall I probably got a good six or seven hours, which is about as much as I could have hoped for. Can’t fault the train, which was fast, smooth, clean and
Good morning Bangkok Read More »
I never was much good at sleeping in weird environments. And the overnight train to Bangkok definitely qualifies, at least for me. Not that it’s bad; quite the opposite. Even here in second class I have my cosy little cubicle, with a perfectly comfy, albeit narrow, bed – with clean, crisp sheets, I might add
03.08 on the fast train to Bangkok Read More »
Perhaps telling that the most interesting image I can come up with is of the egg & banana roti I had for lunch. It’s been that kind of day. Really not too much to say about it. We had planned to go to the National Park, flying solo, and see where we got to with
A day of (enforced) rest Read More »
National Park day today – our one day tour, with boat rides, trekking through the jungle, and clambering through a cave. Didn’t start off too well, with a tedious two hours in a minibus as we made a succession of pickups from ridiculously out of the way places, stopped for petrol, and to call the
Quite the day, helluva finale Read More »