Bangkok 2 - Thailand

We always end back up in some places, and they are usually shit holes compared to where we have just been. Bangkok is one of those places. You just can’t understand anyone ‘wanting’ to live there. It’s smelly, dirty, hot & sweaty, the traffic is terrible, the air is terrible, there’s rubbish everywhere on the streets… I dunno…

But anywho, we braved the traffic in a taxi to the general Post Office where we posted some stuff home. Then we walked for ages to the skytrain and headed off for some grub. We went to the food court. You have to buy a card first, then take your card with you around to all the different food counters that you want food from, then swipe your card for the amount and then go back to your table and wait. I was in no mood for this new approach to lunch and didn’t have much patience for it.

Afterwards we decided to get hair-dos. I didn’t like my dark look and decided to get some highlights. Our hairdresser was very nice and chatted to us about all her favourite TV shows (CSI, Lost, Fear Factor – lol). Then we yapped about who in celebland had had surgery (Melanie Griffith, Fergie, Goldie Hawn etc.
She got a phone call from her husband during my hair but she fobbed him off saying “I’ll call you later (sigh), I’,m busy with my client, I’m busy with my client”. I felt very important indeed.
Our hairs turned out satisfactory (apart from the perfunctory process of blow drying my hair into a mushroom shape) and we headed off home. We sussed out how we were going to get to Siam Reap tomorrow morning, without being ripped off by every Tom, Dick & Harry in Cambodia, and later ventured out for a bit of grub in a restaurant that looked like a jungle.

I am sad to leave Thailand, it has edged it’s way into the top spot for us.