We had a lie in this morning until 8am; bliss!! We had breakfast in the hostel, paid for our acconmodation which came to 900 baht, around 18 pounds, for the 4 nights, and then I faffed about on the internet until it was time to head to the airport. I had a bit of a look through a few of the books in the hostel; there was lots of travel books, and also books you could swap your own books with. I looked through '101 places not to visit', which described Bangkok as most likely to die by tuk-tuk crash, which is quite believable!
We then headed off in a taxi to the airport. The airport is such a cool design; it looks a bit sci fi from the outside.
We checked in our luggage; Robbie had to pay 23 pounds for his extra 10kg. My luggage was 14kg in total, so I was rather proud of that! Lucy and I had a quick shuffle of things so her baggage wasn't over the limit. I had a coffee whilst the others had something to eat. It was a bit expensive, but it was thoroughly enjoyable! We then went through security, but unfortunatly there wasn't anything to entertain us at the otherside, other than toilets and our books. I did discover on my trip to the loos, that there was free internet access which I took advantage of! My favourite part of the airport was along the corridors were disgused speakers in the centre, so as I sauntered up and down the corridor I got occasional bouts of classical music which was a nice surprise!
We sat together on the flight. Lucy was rather entertaining as she had her fingers in her ears for the first 20 minutes to stop her ears from hurting, so she was holding her book open with her elbows and got me to turn her pages for her! Robbie and I were reading too.
The people in front of us were wearing the surgeons masks, like a lot of other Asians, but these had lips on, which just looked really wrong!
Thankfully my visa was okay, although I wasn't able to get it changed to a multi-entry visa which would have saved me a bit of money. We got a taxi to the hostel; Lucy was writing as we drove; it was very well written! She noticed that the taxi driver kept one hand on the horn at all times, to shoo motos and other such traffic out the way. He beeped quite a lot! I wondered where his priorities were when he was holding his phone aswell! It's a bit like the previous driver who held onto his phone with his left hand, and then crossed his right hand over from the steering wheel to the gear stick so he could change gears; nerve wracking stuff!!There were huge jams, and Lucy saw someone urinating on the street!
The hostel looked really nice, the room too was great, although I don't know whether it was worth me saving a bit of money to just have a fan instead of air-conditioning, as the room was boiling!! There were geckos running around the walls which was funny to watch! Lucy and Robbie had quite a bit of SKIP work to do, so for most of I planned out a route to walk for the following day. I planned to get a moto to the far end of my wee tour, and then walk back.
We had dinner for which I had tasty noodles and vegetables. It was quite late on. ''The Killing Fields" was on the TV; which I kept looking up at.
I ended up sleeping in the nude as it was just so hot! I'm not sure what I''ll do if I'm in a dorm, especially as dorms tend to not have air-conditioning! I had the fan pointed at me and on full blast all night, and I managed to not pass out due to the heat, which was a good sign! I had an early night, compared to the others, and was in bed by about 11pm I think!
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