arrival in bangkok
19.06.2007 - 19.06.2007
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so we have started our travels.
on monday 18th we flew from glasgow to london and then on to bangkok. a 10.5 hour flight. i passed the time by watching a united v chelsea game from the 00/01 season that ended 3-3 and featured a cracking paul scholes goal. i also watched a classic liverpool 4 v 2 newcastle game from 98/99, a golden episode of friends and a documentary on muhammed ali's greatest 12 rounds.
i also manged to read paul gascoignes new book while hanging about heathrow, finishing it on the plane. it is an excellent book and delves into gazzas addictive personality, his alcoholism, ocd, gambling, drugs, loneliness............buy it. it's only 6.99.
gazza was an immense player. i will always remember his free kick against arsenal while playing for spurs in the 91 cup semi and his hat trick for rangers to demolish aberdeen and win the league. my good friend dave taylor must have loved watching him play. i am sure kevin thomson will do a job for rangers next season!
bangkok airport is sensational, modern and air conditioned. as soon as we got outside we were hit with by the heat. actually i was hit by the revolving door which was so clear that i tried to walk right through it!
our hotel is lovely and has a rooftop pool. all for only 12 pounds per night. it is in the heart of the travelling district. tonight we ate outside for only 1.20. lynn had an extremely spicy thai green curry and i had a pork dish. we then had a couple of beers before going for an amazing half hour swedish oil massage - we'll try a thai one tomorrow. it was only around 3 pounds for the two of us and we both feel fantastic. we will probably get a different type of massage every day while we are here.
we are going to have an early night tonight so we can get up early and explore the city tomorrow. we have already heard amazing things about the north of thailand and we leave to go there on friday afternoon. our internal flights were only 12 pounds each and we intend to go trekking, bamboo river rafting, elephant trekking and much more when we get up north.
bangkok is huge and pretty full on. it will be nice to spend a couple of days here before moving on. there is a lot of cheap adidas gear kicking about and i am very tempted to buy some tomorrow and just send it home. if it is fake it is top notch. it probably isn't as it's all made over here anyway.
i do intend to try and update this blog regularly so stay tuned.........
take care
murray
Posted by murray2701 19.06.2007 9:58 PM Archived in Round the World | Thailand
Glad to hear you've arrived safely.
Saturday night was a top night, hope your mum's recovered! I'm already looking forward to her 61st :o)
I was lucky enough to see Gazza play many games for us and I've read his book. His talent was never in doubt, but like so many he was a flawed genius. The one thing that struck me about Gazza in reading his book was his generosity, he was just a daft geordie with an unbelievable talent and demons that he never managed to control, he'd give away his last fiver if someone needed it! What really annoys me is the way he was and to an extent still is, hounded and villified by the British (more so Scottish) media.
I've been lucky enough to see some top class players playing for Rangers, Davie Cooper, Ally McCoist, Brian Laudrup, Ronald De Boer and Gazza rates up there with the best of them!
Anyhow, enough rambling about players like Gazza, it only depresses me when we see the dross we're watching these days, still, always next season!
Keep us up to date with your travels Murray, look forward to hearing from you soon.
Take Care
Dave, Shona and Noah.
19.06.2007 by DaveTay