Bangkok Day 2

We got up to have our buffet breakfast on the 77th floor. Its kinda weird at first to have all the hotel staff bowing to you when they greet you but you do get used to it and find yourself doing it back to them (even in London). Who would have thought that I the breakfast lover/the early morning hater would be eating noodles for breakfast.... I did have cereal 'honey stars!', bacon,fruit,juice,waffles,cakes,toast,rottis,dim sums,rice,yoghurt,tomatoes,boiled-scrambled-and fried eggs. No not in the one sitting people! geezz

After our massive brekkie we faced our fears and headed off to the crazy streets of Bangkok. They have these malls the size of Westfields but instead of shops they are filled with market stalls there are rows and row and rows they all look very similar. I get lost at Parklea markets and so this was like Parklea markets on steroids! In the streets on the way to the malls there are also market stalla and food vendors all yelling at you to buy stuff from them ....its crazy!

On our way to MBK (one of the malls) we met our first dodgy tuk tuk driver. He told us he would take us to MBK for 10baht (approx 30 cents) but he would take us to one shop first if we bought somthing there he got 2 petrol coupons if we just looked he would get one (im pretty sure that every book on thailand tells you not to go with these peopl but oh well) So we got in the tuk tuk and went through the mental traffic to this 'high fashion' tailor made suit place. Anyway ends up that Glen ordered 3pants from this place and tuk tuk man got his 2 petrol coupons.

BTW in the tuk tuk amongst the mental drivers I saw this laady on the back of a motorbike holding a baby that was about 2-3months old with no helmets.....mental!

After we made it through the mall and mutiple stall all selling the same thing and yelling at us to buy them, we ended up getting hungry and looking for food. we thought why not ask the concergie he will know a good THAI resturant. He wrote down the name of the shop in english and thia incase we had problems finding it. He also drew on a map where it should be. We ended up walking ages looking for this one elesuvise resturant. We never found it and ended up eating dinner at 10pm in a nice resturan that served Thai, amazing how hard it is to find a Thai resturant in Thailand (not a cart food seller). Was a nice meal and only cost $13 for the both of us which at home would be over $28 easy.

tired after a crazy day I bought 3 pairs of desighner rip off sunnies, 2 pairs of pants, glens pants, and a couple of pressies. But we have decided that cause everything is so freakin cheap, b4 we come home we will send all our clothes home and buy everything new in bangkok on the way back.
that was the end of the first full day.

Kieran