It was an interesting last 2 hours in Sydney. I arrived at Sydney Airport and tried to check in. The Check in Crew were looking at me funny for a few minutes. Then they told me that I didn’t have a visa on my passport as a result of it being a new passport. I was told that it was unlikely I would be boarding today unless I had my old passport with me. I franticly ran around the airport looking for customs. It was 60 minutes to my flight. This was crazy. I got customs to contact the Emirates staff to let them know that immigration would sort the problem. I finally got to check my bag in 50 minutes to departure. I literally ran through customs and duty free and boarded my plane. Thailand here I come.
Arriving in Thailand I hoped for no trouble with immigration. Thankfully I was in luck. I decided to get a taxi. This ride gave me a brief view of Bangkok. The streets were full of stalls and plenty of hustle and bustle. It was as I imagined it to be. The people were up in their stalls at 3am and it was pissing rain. Unfortunately travel shows you the sad side of life aswell. The taxi cost 450 Bhat (About 8 euro for an hour drive cheap :))
I arrived into the Hotel and was met by the friendly hotel staff, which checked me into my room. I watched the end of the United game and then it was time for some rest after my 9 hour flight.
After a bit of a sleep in it was time to meet Mike and Gary. It was good to see them again. We decided to head out and sample the streets first hand. We hit the main street and what greeted us was “Sir you want to buy!”, “Ping pong show”, “Hey were you from” etc. It was street stall after street stall. There was loads of bric and brac to be got aswell as some clothes. It is true that Bangkok is sleazy but it’s fascinating to see this crazy city.
The weather was something we never experienced before. It’s so hot and humid. It’s such a sticky feeling. The temperature was over 30 degrees but with the humidity it seems a lot higher. The best way to explain it is imagine being outside but outside being a sauna. We are going to lose buckets of sweat in the next few weeks.
It was only a few hours to meeting the New Gap group so we didn’t want to exert ourselves too much so we just had a walk around enjoying the shops, cafes and Ice cream Parlours.
We arrived back in the Hotel fashionably late for our first meeting. The group seemed cool and our tour leader Caroline promised we would have a good time. We all headed for dinner. At dinner we all heard how some of the group just got fed up off work and wanted to travel. We all spoke fondly of Australia. Everyone was getting on pretty well. The lads were having there footy conversations while the girls had there girly chats.
What happened next shocked us a little bit. We decided to head home early as we had a 7 am start. One of the guys in the group decided to shout abuse at us for not getting involved in drinking. It was a bit weird considering none of us had spoken to him. He called me a girl for not drinking with him then he told Gary to take off his Superman top as he was no man. We just walked home with some of the group ignoring him.
During the night a bit of a fight took place and Angry Guy decides to start a fight with a fellow member of the group. It ended up with him getting hit and his earring out. Welcome to the start of the next month.
Bang bang,
Conor
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