First move

Tuesday 29th January

Well it was out of the relative luxury of the Silom hotel and off up to Khao San today. This is the famous backpackers strip in Bangkok, and it already felt like a better place to stay when I got out of the taxi. Of course thats because he dropped me right by the Shamrock bar. Which was deliberate I think, he was actually a genuinely nice guy. (Under my new policy I expect to get scammed all over, so am pleasently surprised when I'm not)


It didn't take too long to find a place to stay, altough its not the best, but it is cheap.


After getting set up it was off to yet another Wat, and the Golden mount, also a Wat. This is a tall, a few hundred steps, temple that you can climb and get soome good views of the city. But its no Vertigo.


I spent most of the rest of the day looking around the area and revelling in the fact that there were others like me in the world. Up untill now the only English speakers I have met have all been lads, older than me, married to Thai women. There are loads of them. At least when I got to Khao San I saw my first foreign woman, thai bloke, couple.