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Thailand 2004: Day Three

Barry Price
2006-02-22 12:48:16

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Up at 9am today - obviously I’ve completely recovered from the jet lag. Martin leaves early to get a minibus to Cambodia, in order to renew his visa. It’s a shame - we’d originally considered spending a few days in Cambodia, taking in maybe Angkor Wat and Phnom Penh, but in the end there just isn’t going to be enough time, so Martin’s doing a day trip alone. Still, this gave me just enough time to write the previous few diary entries…

I write in this diary until around 11am, then potter around the house. It’s too hot to spend much time outside at this time of day, so I read and manage a light snooze as well. Very aware that I can read and sleep when I get home, I force myself outside for a bike ride around the lakes at around 4pm, but 30 minutes is enough to reduce me to a big sweaty mess, so I cycle back to Martin’s for my third or fourth shower of the day.

Martin arrives home around 5pm, dumps his stuff, and we jump into a taxi and head into central Bangkok to meet one of Martin’s friends, a female Thai called Elf, for dinner at a curious chain restaurant called MK. We have nothing like this in England - basically you order your own preference of meat, fish, vegetables etc, and put them into a large bowl of boiling water built into the centre of your table. The concept of charging customers extra money to make their own soup has so far escaped western entrepeneurs… Having said that, the food and company were excellent. Elf was around 30, but could easily have passed for 18 – something apparently true of most Thai women. After a couple of days of total immersion in Thailand, I’m starting to realise how much fun it could be to live out here.

After dinner, Martin and I walk Elf back to the sky-train (Bangkok city monorail), and phone Sue, who we had planned to meet for a few drinks in Bangkok. As it turned out, Sue was tired and on her way home, so Martin decides to take the opportunity to introduce me to the (in)famous ...

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