bangkok - quick post

hello all, just a quick post to say i hope your all well. its 17:00 on tuesday here. yesterday i walked around the city and looked around nana shopping complex then i got a tuk-tuk to siam square (it was only a 10-15 min ride but he tried to charge to 500 baht! (around 7 pound) but i said no, 100 baht - eventually i agreed on 200 which is only around 2.80 mainly because i was hungry and just wanted to get to the hard rock cafe and get something to eat, then he tried to get me to go to his sponsors, a tailor and lok round so he would get free gas but i said it had to be straight to hard rock cafe with no stops which he eventually agreed on, alot of hassle, taxi's are easier although i got a tuk-tuk today and there where no problems, its also quite fun to zip in and out of traffic as well as quicker then taxi's as you can zip through the traffic at times) - HRC was good where i got some hickory chicken. Today i had a lok at river city shooping complex and then round chinatown which was good (i picked up 2 little pink purses in chinatown at one of the old markets which looked very sweet, one had a cartoon kitty on and the other some cartoon hamsters, they are only little and i will post them in sydney with the postcards - they are for emily and sophie (you can choose who has which one leanne, does emily like hamsters or kittens better? lol) - hopefully it wil all arrive by xmas.

btw - the phone calls i made home cost a combined 40 pound home to mum/dad/jamie, paul and leanne so it must of been around a pound a minute - i will call when i get to sydney, a little expensive but just one of those things, it was good to speak to everyone - i could look into getting a phonecard but i will just wait until next week or so to call)

how did the kestrels do this week?

ummmmm............anything ive forgotten??? i just saw england were blowing the cricket and will probably lose - i'm in lumpini park and i will have a look around then get some things at 7/11 to take back - i will probably look at going into chinatown or patpong tomorrow night but i doubt i will do too much tonight - i will probably go to the grand palace on thursday, i'm not sure what to do tomorrow - its the kings birthday here tomorrow and there are alot of things up in the streets. maybe there will be a festival or something going on, i shall see.

a quick hello too to julie/david/katie and ashely - i heard you all sometimes check this blog, how are you all doing? - i bought a postcard for you all which should arrive by xmas)

how is you fantasy team doing? in the playoffs? i lost by a few points this week so crashed out!!

anyway, i better go (turned into quite a long post)

take care and speak to you soon

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (G)