Listening to: Summerland - The Herd
Still in Bangkok, where the air smells of rotting food and rubbish, diesel, petrol, exhaust fumes, rice and others?? Where the roads and streets are breaking up and if you lose your footing, you could break a bone or two! Where its hellishly noisy and an assault to the ears when you're nursing a headache!!
Where the smoggy haze hangs over the city like a grey cloak and if you watch long enough you imagine it coming down and suffocating the city in a thick fog - think Stephen King and The Mist and you get the picture.
Where it rains sporadically and heavily - washing away the smell and pollution for just a few minutes to catch your breath then heats the Bangkok air and rising humidity to unbearable temps!!
Where it's incredibly green - date palms dense and jungle like, line the freeways and surround the shantis on the side of the road.
Where it's a land so familiar to me from times travelled before, the 'land of smiles', and 'sawadees'. Where it opens its arms and always welcomes me back.
Ahem...Aren't we supposed to be in Cairo by now - Aah yes we are - but we're not! Take a major dose of Delhi belly (in this case Bangkok) I won't bore you with the gory details but we changed our flights and if all goes to plan, we will be in Cairo on the 11th.
The flight over was friendly and pretty uneventful (just how we like it) but leaving BrisVegas didn't go as smoothly when Dave had most of his toiletries confiscated due to the 3-1-1 ruling. Even though I had prewarned him and shown him the website - for some strange reason he read into it something completely different and thought all was hunky dory! WRONG! He was not a happy chappy and the argument that followed with security who got Dave's back up by his wanky, smart ass comments turned some of our excitement sour :( But that's all behind us now, replenished with dodgy Thai toiletries and a repack of Dave's hand luggage.
The sun is peaking its way through the smog and soon we'll be in for another night of rice (good and bland for the belly).
Ciao for now until the next instalment in Cairo...
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