Into Thailand (Oct 26th & 27th)

We left Cambodia early on Wednesday and set off for the border in a service bus. We saw some flooding in Cambodia on the way to the border, however we were delayed when we got 2 blow outs. The first one required a tyre change (from bald dangerous tyre) – we had to wait for the next bus to deliver one. The second was not so serious as we still had a single tyre on the rear right hand side. The border crossing was straight forward and we then split to 2 smaller minibuses for the journey to Bangkok. We booked into The New Joe Guesthouse in central Bangkok.

On Thursday we were all feeling a little delicate first thing after separate boys and girls nights out. In mid morning I had a guided tour of the Palace and the largest reclining Buddha in the world. The Palace building were spectacular and well worth seeing and the reclining Buddha at 45m long was suitably impressive.Most of the shops are taking precautions (building small walls and sandbagging) to prevent the floods.  We are not affected at the moment although water does come into the streets in the morning and we are waiting for the high tides in the next couple of days.  Other parts of the city are badly affected, but we have been lucky so far, but it is buildiong up for a storm at the moment!!