So, on with the entertainment! I met up with Loek and Winchy on the 3rd of February in Bangkok, we did some tourist like things. Visited Pantip Plaza (8 quid for a 2GB SD Ram card for my Palm TX thank you very much). Spent a while getting very lost in MBK, had our photo taken with a fake pirate on the Koah San Road and rented a longtail boat for a rather cool waterways tour of Bangkok. Here is a picture of Loeky on the boat.

That was the normal part of the Bangkok visit, the other parts were rather interesting. First off, let’s remember that Winchy’s particular fetish is Asian women and this was his first time in Asia. So of course, we ended up in Patpong, Winchy and myself dragged a couple of bar girls out of one of the show bars. We had to split cabs on the way home as there were too many of us for one cab. I get back to the hotel first where upon the reception desk ask my girl for ID so they can make sure she is over the legal limit (20) and she can’t find it. I then sit in the lobby with her crying whilst I wait for the guys to turn up in their cab. Finally she finds her ID and the problem is resolved. Winchy turns up with his girl and tells me she’s been in tears in the cab because it’s her first time working a bar.

So the night goes much as expected, mine leaves early in the morning and I meet the guys in the hotel restaurant, Winchy looks a bit upset so I ask him what’s wrong? It turns out his girl is so inexperienced and stressed out that Winchy couldn’t get it to fit! (I laughed quite a lot at that).

We also had three very strange events involving taxi drivers.

Event 1: We walk outside of Pantip Plaza and flag a cab, we climb in and ask him to switch on the meter, he says ok in a minute. We drive about a mile with us asking him over and over again to turn on the meter, eventually he says no, we have to pay him more because of the traffic. So we ask him to pull over and let us out, but that’s not good enough for him, he’s getting aggressive and that triggers Loeky, so we almost have a boxing match in the middle of the street!

Event 2: Myself and Winchy decide to go shopping on the Koah Sahn Road one evening. We get into a cab, he turns on the meter and drives around for about 30 minutes. He then pulls over to the side of the road, tells us he is hungry and is going home and kicks us out of the cab!

Event 3: We book a cab from Pattaya to Bangkok, about a 2 hour drive. It’s 2am in the morning and still really hot and humid. At first the cab is nice and cool but soon I realise I’m starting to sweat. I look at the dashboard and the cab drivers has the aircon set to 32 degrees! He’s got the fucking heater on and it’s colder outside than it is in the cab! We ask him to turn it down and he does…. to 28 degrees! He’s still cooking us!

Stay tuned for the next gripping episode, which involves Pattaya, getting arrested, a fucked up Hungarian who likes to shag lady boys and a large dose of street racing.

I’ve been trying to cut down on my drinking lately, I didn’t touch a drop for three whole days! This brings other problems, I needed to find something to fill my time in the evenings if I’m not getting drunk.

So last night around 7pm I decided I would do something healthy and go for a walk, I strolled for about 15 minutes until I came across a bar! I thought hey, one drink won’t hurt!

I came home 12 hours later after spending the evening in the bar and then heading to Haad Rin to hit a club. And now I have one bitch of a hangover. I mean I don’t even like vodka and red bull, what the fuck was I doing drinking it by the bucket load? Probably because it was 90 pence a go actually!

As a result of this evening of merry making I seem to have acquired two things. Firstly a Thai girlfriend named Soda (who thinks up these names?) and secondly a sprained ankle after falling down some steps!

Oh well, such is life, at least it’s not boring.