10 things

10 things I like about Bangkok:
1. food from the stalls in the road
2. busses
3. Wat Pho (temple of the reclining Buddha)
4. the sun
5. ladyboys
6. the river
7. sleeper trains
8. the friendly people
9. Chinatown
10. markets

10 things I don't like about Bangkok:
1. overpriced non-fresh food especially for tourists
2. Tuk Tuks (sorry!)
3. tourists who don't respect rules/rituals in and around the temples
4. the scorching heat and stink everywhere
5. being stood up by bus drivers, telling me they don't go my way (a lie!)
6. the poverty you can see from the river
7. snoring people on sleeper trains
8. harassing taxi drivers
9. getting lost in Chinatown
10. not having bought cool stuff in Bangkok and now having to pay twice as much in Ko Phi Phi


I look like a crab! I burnt myself so badly on the ferry from Krabi to Ko P.P., it's embarrassing. And all this after 12 hrs in a night bus with the mindless chatter of two German guys behind me who talked about one of them finding "ne Perle" (a Thai woman) and 2 hrs in a make shift hut at a stinking bay, waiting to be picked up for the ferry... I hope tomorrow awaits me with beautiful film-like bays with white sand, palm trees and hunky men handing me cocktails all day. Strawberry Margheritas, please, to match my skin colour.

Why does time fly like that? After having arrived only a week ago, I made it to the North and back, saw Bangkok twice, used a sleeper train twice, keep meeting lovely French people ('allo 'allo to Maryline, Sandrine, Yannis and Jean-Louis!) but have to realise nevertheless that I will have to skip Malaysia. Ouch! This of course implies coming back to London eventually, working my arse of to earn as much money as possible in the shortest span of time (anyone need a personal PA?), and then sod of again to see all the things I haven't seen. If it works out I will have one day in Klumpur (here a warm HELLO goes to Dave!), and then take the night bus/train to Singapore to fly out Sat morning. Yes, life is hard when you travel the world.
No, honestly, I have to take a step back and think. At the moment I feel like I am in a 100-m-run through Southeast Asia, and I don't want this to go on in Australia. I don't plan anything (!), I don't book my rooms anywhere and apart from this being cool it also means to pay more (120 BAHT for internet in Ko P.P. instead of 40 BAHT in Bangkok) and run around all the time. Phew.



Thanks already for all the lovely posts, if I actually figure out how to reply to them, I shall do so. But before I have to book a room in Sydney, my ferry-bus-combination from here to KL on Thursday and a night bus from there to Singapore. I embrace you all and shall revert in due time from OZ (here, a warm hello goes to Jason (who surely doesn't read this blog, so if you could pass this on to him, Florian, that would be nice :o)).

xxx