You'll all be pleased to hear that I have arrived safe and sound! I managed to sleep most of the flight without realising, got woken up for breakfast and thought it had only been 2 hours since dinner, turned out it had been 7! I blame the office leaving drinks, I think I am still recovering!I managed to meet 4 girls at the airport and we all got a taxi in to the centre. They made us wait for a "big taxi", but we realised a little too late that a big taxi actually still only had 4 seats so the 5 of us had to squish in the back - not the most comfortable of journeys! The others were dropped at Khaosan Road while I carried on to meet up with my group tour. Once I arrived at the hotel I was hurried straight into a meeting with our tour leader who claimed she speaks "thainglish" - a combination of thai and english. So a whole hour could have been summed up in 3 sentances - don't drink tap water, wear sun cream and keep your valuables safe. Not exactly shocking pieces of advice.
We all then went out for dinner. At the moment there are 10 people on the tour (only one guy!) and everyone seems really nice. After dinner we went for a quick drink, then all drifted off in our own ways. I bumped into Georgia, and then the girls from the taxi. So I stayed around for a couple of buckets (lethal stuff) with them and met some more new people. Then randomly bumped into Harry Pearse - a guy from Fortismere - we both were looking at each other quizzically thinking "didn't he go to my school?!"
He was travelling with some more people from Fortismere, so we all ended up in a random club in the middle of nowhere in Bangkok. Took two tuk tuks there - our driver kept trying to do wheelies, not with much success but with quite a few shrieks from me!Decided not to go on the tour around the palace today as I have already been there, so decided instead to catch up on my sleep and laze around by the pool, not a hard life! Taking an overnight train to Chiang Mai tonight then continuing up into Laos.
Still can't quite get my head around the fact that this is day one of 5 months!!!
