Leaving Barry and Vivienne in their land of nod at 6.10 in the morning,we hauled ourselves to the gates of Coconut Paradise where we were picked up by minibus and taken to the main coach terminal on Samui, where some 30 knackered minutes later we boarded our luxury coach to begin the fourteen hour journey to Bangkok. Gotta say, Stash and Oskar are amazing,not one tiny protest. Only a couple of elders seemed to whine and grunt at this point, one bald, one of bust.
In Bangkok we basically took the first thing we were taken to, a windowless box, not even a badly tuned telly to veg out over, but clean and tidy and at that point we really didn't care too much."guests not allow bring visitors unless Thai lady"...oh,alright.
Grabbed a quick bite in a cafe a few doors along and that was that.
In the morning we were served breakfast by a longhaired ladyboy wearing red tigereye contact lenses. Elizabeth thought he was beautiful. Actually, so did I.
Then we visited a Buddhist temple where Stash and Osk lit some candles in memory of our beloved cats,Blokker and Oskar. A boat trip took us in the direction of the Skytrain monorail which in turn lead us to Siam square, centre of all hip, place to eat pizza, decorate those crocs and attempt a visit to do some modern art (closed Monday).
We visited the house of Jim Thompson who was instrumental in reintroducing Thai silk to the rest of the world. He went off to Malaysia one day in his sixties and may have been eaten by a tiger because he never ever came back.He did leave behind a bloody stupidly huge house which was for he alone, though he did give the gardener and maid a couple of sheds in the grounds. His silks appeared in the film,"The King and I". We were shown around various collections of ornaments, crockery, paintings and buddhas, a potty shaped like a cat for lads and a frog for the girlies.After this we took a tuk tuk all the way back to the lovely Ko San road, picked up and applied some more deet and Christ have you not got anything better to do than read this fucking shit?
Tune in next time for the first installment of Into Cambodia via eight bent border policemen...
Location:S.E.Asia
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