Highlights: BBQ king size prawns and beers with buddies.
Low blows: Bangkok traffic.
Music of the week: Divers – Boozou Bajou
Caught bus up to Bangkok 120 baht for me and 100 for bike. Arrived 1:30pm. Quite unnerving to be amongst such heavy traffic and past closely by cement mixers and other nutters at high speed. Glad to arrive at gh 45 mins later. The woman who owns place I stayed at keeps lots of dogs and birds in cages, so it smells a bit like a petshop, but is quite a quirky place and right enough for 200baht. Put passport in for 6month China and 1month Vietnam visas (3200 and 2200baht). Already 3pm by time I got organized so just bought a 30litre drybag so make things a bit more organized on back of bike instead of lots of plastic bags. Had a few beers later on the infamous Gecko bar which certainly helped me to sleep while the Chinese festival around the corner went on till 2am with blasting music and wailing karaoke.
Some local had their phone on full blast so kept getting woken up by a Thais mobile phone song on full volume in night and early in morning. Thai mobile phones have enough volume to rival a motorhead gig. Had a western breakfast for a change, then cycled to the bikeshop. Lots of big monitor lizards in Lumphini Park swimming about. Bought new rear light, handlebar bag, pump, innertubes, gloves, waterbottle, tube levers, tube repairkit, and got new chain and rear set fitted aswell. 100quid altogether. Went and had my vaccinations done in nearby red cross hospital while waiting for them to put on new chain and rear set on bike. Some boats in the yard recently arrived back from flooded areas. A load of construction workers of to Middle East came in to get vaccinated too.
Wandered around doing a bit of sight-seeing and shopping, weird how walking around Bangkok makes you just as tired as cycling long distance. Met with some friends in evening and had a few beers and game of pool.
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around Bangkok's markets |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around the ChaoPhraya river. |
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| Around Bangkok. |
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Around the ChaoPhraya river.
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Around Bangkok.
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| Around Bangkok. |
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| Strange junction. |
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| Strange junction. |
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| Around Bangkok. |
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| Around Bangkok. |
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| Around Bangkok. |
Later in the week packed my bags and cycled up to Steves house in BangYai. He’d given me decent directions so just had to brave traffic, which wasn’t too bad at mid morning. Worried about getting rear ended by some twat on mobile phone etc. Hot sunny morning. Went to supermarket on motorbike and bought some supplies, including a case of beer, which became a bit of a balancing act having it perched on seat and wedged between my knees on way back.
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| Mental Health cereal! |
Curry night at Glen and Preeya’s new house. Had delicious king Prawns and squid on BBQ and then a few curries all washed down with the booze Id gotten earlier. Aroy Aroy!! 
Next morning turns out Federbrau is a miracle beer as felt absolutely fine!! Glen made comment too so must be the Bavarian purity laws that make it so clean. Went and bought a hi-viz jacket to modify for the bike. Went in search of a seamstress and got them to knock up a couple of hi-viz wrap around things, that will fit around top of pannier bags and make me more visible. I realised when looking at the fully loaded bike from behind that it was just a black mass. Now its lit up like a Christmas tree – Hope it helps!
Saturday was Steves birthday so had a few beers in afternoon and then went off to a restaurant followed by Karaoke.
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| Can't let all that ice cream go to waste. |
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| Tequila. |
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| Girls 'n' boys. |
A good laugh and decided to drink the magic potion Federbrau again and avoided drinking tequila despite peer pressure. Matt did a quality comedy routine at the end!! Bed 1:30.
Sunday Morning – Federbrau is now my favourite beer as you can drink as much as you want and feel ok the next day, the exact opposite of drinking beer Chang (elephant beer), which makes you feel like an elephant has walked over your head.
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