Joe and Lou's Travel Blog

Arrived in Bangkok at 2 this morning. I had a little rest on the plane but was still pretty tired. After a little confusion the taxi driver managed to find the guesthouse. It is quite far north of central Bangkok so will ride th sky train to get into town. Tim arrived at around 9 am. Having not slept on the plane, he was shattered and has been sleeping since then.

The guesthouse has free rides to the weekend markets so I went along. They are massive. Luckily they are layed-out in a grid pattern so it was easy to remember where you were and how to get back to where you came from. There was the usual cheap t-shirts with crass designs, fake jeans, shoes and watches and people selling junk toys. Some interesting things were bags made from old jeans, cowboy outfits (hats, buckles etc), lots of stalls that only sell camouflage shorts, lots of strange foods and lots of small, clay, castings with symbols and pictures of Budda. People were looking at these in detail with those magnifying manacles that jewelers use. I think they buy them to put in their shines at home.

Well it is about time I woke Tim and we got some lunch. We have free internet access here at the guesthouse so I will probably do another blog tomorrow. The Internet access in Railay is supposed to be ridiculously expensive and unreliable so we shall see how I go there.