[quote user="chelsea boy" post="61263"]
they will never let you in a posh place like Datca again.......... not after the last time!.... [/quote]

why what went on last time ?

Details to follow

just lock up your tortoises and your donkeys.......

Never a truer word said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uLB8wL2Z0

Monkey: Red or green? I'm easy. Either. Ta.

[quote user="charly" post="61301"]Monkey: Red or green? I'm easy. Either. Ta.[/quote]

I like easy red ones

[quote user="ch" post="61280"]Never a truer word said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uLB8wL2Z0[/quote]
irrefuteable evidence CH...... a copy is on the way to Jandarma as I type....

[quote user="ddens" post="61303"][quote user="charly" post="61301"]Monkey: Red or green? I'm easy. Either. Ta.[/quote]

I like easy red ones [/quote]

Keep on looking! Nothing easy about this one!
PS Flirting like this may get you a lethal injection tonight!

Promises promises

well kids - here we are in bangkok... an oriental city (had to say it)
i have dragged the monkey down to the famed khao san area - we are, however, staying on a side street bc its cheaper and quieter... and DAMN our room is so cheap.. gotta love thailand
a little update?
our last night in pattaya was pretty quiet... to be honest, i was tired of the cess and sin and just wanted to watch cable in an airconditioned room - such a rare event as a backpacking veteran! plus i had a bitch of a sunburn on my back.. love being pale
and the next day was the usual annoying trip into bangkok - up not so early, eat breaky, score some real coffee and make it to the train station 2 minutes late (oops), backtrack to the bus station and have to wait about 40 minutes... but no worries
except that we stupidly made it into the city for full-on rush hour AND some more of the monsoon that has plagued us the last few days (weeks?)
now... its amazing how much bangkok has changed since i was here 3 years ago - they now have this great skytrain and metro that covers a lot of the city. so after our arrival at southern bus terminal, we hopped on the sky train as far as we could go to get close to banglamphu... only to have get back out in the rain and bargain our asses off for a cab again grrr

Question: why does ever damn cab in this city have a "metre taxi" sign on it and then refuse to turn on the metre??? and then you find yourself bargaining for about 20 cents cdn... way too much stress for no reason really. but i guess its the annoying head-scratching principle of the matter.

anyways - i digress. we met up with some friends we met in laos last night - our dutch girls and a londoner - and proceeded to get positively sloshed!!! this seems to be a theme with this particular grouping. the only thing that would have made things totally perfect is having our israeli mates back with us as well! but i think they are in vietnam now...
sadly enough we got kicked out of one bar and grabbed more dutch people and stumbled off to another bar where we had to hide our beers in plastic pepsi cups haha ... oooh .. how covert haha. i think we left about 5... the girls had to be at the airport at 8 - still hoping they made it
stupidly we made plans to get up in the am and head to the weekend market
and that we did.
but howard, the londoner, didnt show so monkey and i dragged our sorry asses on the local bus 53 (stupid stupid stupid) and he got a full scenic tour of banglamphu and chinatown before finally arriving at the metro. and let me tell you - bangkok in rainy season when the sun shines.. is really really hellishly hot...
so the aircon on the metro was a welcome for sure

we did some shopping and then i almost passed out from the lack of air and pokey thai elbows
but i think we accomplished all we set out to .... despite the hangovers and the heat. YAY US! so all those requests that have been sent to monkey... i think you are all sorted

dragged ourselves home.. no bus this time.. taxi taxi ka! a little "sabai di mai?" = local equivalent of buttering up the driver with how are yous and damn the weather's hot.... - the price dropped and off we were back to khao san. yummy meal at shoshana (israeli food.. yum yum falafel!!)
and now we are just being backpacker slobs haha
monkey is off to get a massage or something - and i will probably head off to have a beer somewhere soon and contemplate my next move after here...
am thinking a week or so in koh tao for some diving and then back to krabi.... but then again, am perfectly happy to see how things flow since there is a full moon party on the 9th.. hmmmmmm

so there you have it. tomorrow the monkey man is going to go and see the grand palace and i will probably boot it down to wat pho for a good massage. i think he is going to see muay thai tomorrow - not sure i can stomach it (sorry paul)
hope everyone is cool back home - enjoy your boat trip
and see everyone when i get back... since i will probably not continue to post when the monkey leaves - i am lazy that way

Great to read your adventures! It has been 10 years since I was there and it sounds like I should return one day!

Just for your information, before I moved here, my company put me in the Swissotel during meetings and one evening I decided to go to the spa for a massage and there was a Thai girl doing it. She explained me that she and a friend were living in Istanbul as expats, paid by the Swissotel. She was very nice, and happy to hear that I had been in Thailand in the past and we had a very nice chat. She then explained how she hated the Turkish food and she and her friend cooked Thai every day and she invited me for dinner. I could not make it due to our meetings, but decided to go again for massage anyway. It is rather expensive though (at that time 30 US$ for 1 or 1,5 hrs), but I enjoyed it.

Must admit I have not been back as I feel it is too far away from my place.

Margriet

beach beach beach
wake up, swim, hammock, nap, beer, nap, swim, dinner, hammock... haha
maybe some food and diving in there as well
plan to be as lazy as a cat
meow!

Sounds fabulous! Enjoy!

great write up you 2, glad the sky train is up and running, it was half done when i was last there, and no sign of it ever getting finished due to lack of money,

are you both not flying back together ? Have fun!

PS is eather one of you gets into any bother let me know as iv got good thai friends there in bangkok.