Bangkok Done!!!!!

We have now left Bangkok and we are staying with our friend in Sydney.

So Bangkok is finish.

While leaving Bangkok Customs I was taken aside by a security office and asked do I have knife in my bag? I would not have been that foolish to leave a knife in my bag so I said " no officer". He then emptied my bag of jumpers, mp3 player and all and found no knife. He then put it though the x-ray machine again and he said the knife was still there. I said "officer I can assure you there is no knife in my bag" as I was taking to the man I put my hand in the bag to show him. To my horror I found my penknife. I was asked to put it into the box never to been seen again. I would like to say this is not the first and I'm sure it will not be the last of my pen knifes to be confiscated

My trip though customs got even worst when we reached Australia. They do not allow you to bring food, wood, or mud on your walking boots. Well I have recently walked around the Isle of white with my Dad and I'm ashamed to admit that I had not cleaned them thoroughly. When asked by the Australian customs if our boots were clean. Zoe answered first and said "of course they are" they checked and her boots were spotless. I said mine had a little mud on them by some luck they did not ask to see my boots as we then saw other people having their shoes taken away!

And so the next chapter is Australia.........

Photo List

1. At church on Christmas Day

2. The Grand Palace

3. Barnabee Bear at the Grand Palace

4. Monks meeting world famous Histon football player

5. Floating market

Today is our last full day in Bangkok. We have now been here 6 days and we feel like we have done so much. Since the last post we have had a great dinner at the night market in Pat Pong. If you don't know Bangkok Pat Pong is the Nightmarket and Red Light district. We managed to find a restaurant which looked nice until you saw cats chasing rats very near your feet. We were the only mixed sex couple is this restaurant we were in the gay area also. That was fine untill I went to the toilet. On Christmas Day we found a English speaking church. it was a lovely church doing lots of good work in the city. The service like all good Christmas services had a quiz. The Quiz was split into two teams of maybe 500 people each side. I managed to get the first answer right but the team was let down by another member of my family who gave the wrong answer and lost our team the quiz. We have had a foot massage which was not great but the women were very funny.

Bangkok

Here we are it is Christmas in bangkok! It is very hot and humid. The heat of the day is between 11am and 3pm and then cools down quite quickly. So far we have seen many (many) temples full of golden idols. The best was Wat Pho becasue we had a fantastic thai massage - think we will probably go back for another! We have seen a thai boxing fight which was great - very loud and it looked quite brutal. David decided not to join in! We have encountered tuc tuc drivers and now we don't trust a word they say! If anyone says somewhere is closed we have learnt to ignore them and do what we want. But most thai people are really nice - eager to give directions even if they don't understand where you want to go. We are now off to a night market and maybe see some ladyboys.

Pre Adventure info!

Not long to go now! We leave on the 21st December.