Blogging from Bangkok!
Hi all :)
Kat and Ed here (or Mr and Mrs Gillett!), blogging from an internet cafe in the Asia Hotel in Bangkok just before we head off to the airport to go to Koh Samui for the rest of our honeymoon. Nothing to do until our transfer gets here, already checked out, so we thought we'd blog!
Good news. Wedding ring doesn't appear to be affecting typing performance. Bonus. Thai symbols in addition to slightly odd layout on keyboard are however :)
So, what have we been up to. Well we had a traditional thai "brunch" out on the street the first morning we were here with the locals at a street stall, noodles and soup and dim sum. Lovely! We then proceeded to take our lives in our hands by taking a tuk tuk around town for most of the day, with our friendly tuk tuk driver Leo ("like the lion!"). Leo didn't rip us off as much as he could have done, and much to his credit appeared to take us to some of the better places where he could get his commission!! (even to a very good jewellery store where he didn't get any commission - very impressive!). So we went over to the river for a private cruise in a long boat, and saw some traditional bangkok houses by the river, we went to a tailor to get the seemingly mandatory tailor made suit (Yup - Ed got a new Cashmere suit, three silk shirts and a silk tie thrown in for good measure - all for <200 Pounds sterling!). In the jewellery store Kat got yet more bling bought for her with a perfect fire blue Thai sapphire with two mini diamonds either side (like a smaller - much smaller! - version of her mum's).
We've been quite lazy in the evenings for food (and why not - we're on honeymoon!), and have been trying the 4 different restaurants in the hotel. We started off with what seemed to be the feast of a thousand animals in the Brazilian restaurant (they just kept on producing more skewers with different meats on!!), Chinese next night and a really lovely Vietnamese restaurant the next.
Quick dash round as many temples as we could cram in on Wednesday (since we overslept! Doh!) which included the Marlbe Temple and Golden Buddah (it's big ... and Gold!). Evening found us wandering around the night market in Patpong with all it's "novelty" value :D
Yesterday - Day trip to the original floating market and rose garden. We also stopped in on a crocodile farm where we saw an excellent elephant show as well. We fed all the elephants and Kat was very happy she got to say hello to all the heffalumps at the end :) Emily - we've got lots of pics and videos for you, and we fed when just for you! (it's was the cute baby one!).
Right - gotta sign off now. May blog again - but if not, we lazed by the pool lots!!
See you all soon!
Mr and Mrs G.
Kat and Ed here (or Mr and Mrs Gillett!), blogging from an internet cafe in the Asia Hotel in Bangkok just before we head off to the airport to go to Koh Samui for the rest of our honeymoon. Nothing to do until our transfer gets here, already checked out, so we thought we'd blog!
Good news. Wedding ring doesn't appear to be affecting typing performance. Bonus. Thai symbols in addition to slightly odd layout on keyboard are however :)
So, what have we been up to. Well we had a traditional thai "brunch" out on the street the first morning we were here with the locals at a street stall, noodles and soup and dim sum. Lovely! We then proceeded to take our lives in our hands by taking a tuk tuk around town for most of the day, with our friendly tuk tuk driver Leo ("like the lion!"). Leo didn't rip us off as much as he could have done, and much to his credit appeared to take us to some of the better places where he could get his commission!! (even to a very good jewellery store where he didn't get any commission - very impressive!). So we went over to the river for a private cruise in a long boat, and saw some traditional bangkok houses by the river, we went to a tailor to get the seemingly mandatory tailor made suit (Yup - Ed got a new Cashmere suit, three silk shirts and a silk tie thrown in for good measure - all for <200 Pounds sterling!). In the jewellery store Kat got yet more bling bought for her with a perfect fire blue Thai sapphire with two mini diamonds either side (like a smaller - much smaller! - version of her mum's).
We've been quite lazy in the evenings for food (and why not - we're on honeymoon!), and have been trying the 4 different restaurants in the hotel. We started off with what seemed to be the feast of a thousand animals in the Brazilian restaurant (they just kept on producing more skewers with different meats on!!), Chinese next night and a really lovely Vietnamese restaurant the next.
Quick dash round as many temples as we could cram in on Wednesday (since we overslept! Doh!) which included the Marlbe Temple and Golden Buddah (it's big ... and Gold!). Evening found us wandering around the night market in Patpong with all it's "novelty" value :D
Yesterday - Day trip to the original floating market and rose garden. We also stopped in on a crocodile farm where we saw an excellent elephant show as well. We fed all the elephants and Kat was very happy she got to say hello to all the heffalumps at the end :) Emily - we've got lots of pics and videos for you, and we fed when just for you! (it's was the cute baby one!).
Right - gotta sign off now. May blog again - but if not, we lazed by the pool lots!!
See you all soon!
Mr and Mrs G.
posted by EdGillett at 3:22 am
2 Comments:
bless - elephants! Have fun, raining here so enjoy heat.
So we now know what it is to blog.
Enjoy the rest of your honeymoon and the sunshine - it's still raining here. Woof from Prisca
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