Ash’s favourite song whilst touring northern France: Brittany, Normandy and Loire Valley.

Ghetto Millionaire by Black Mamba. A favourite of bman’s whilst on the road in France.

There is an old Chinese proverb that says “He who walks through airport doors sideways goes to Bangkok”. Whilst that proverb is very insightful, it has nothing to do with what I am about to say…

We arrived at the Bangkok international airport early morning on Friday 13 July 2007. It was only an overnight stopover in Bangers on our way to Europe, but we had a jam packed day ahead of us.

Wat Arun Bangkok

After pushing our way through the congregation of hawkers at the airport exit gate we made our way to the taxi rank and negotiated a couple of taxis to take us to the Rembrandt Hotel on Soi 18 just off Sukhumvit Road. There was a bit of traffic on the roads, so door-to-door from airport to hotel was about 45 mins.

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