Friday 30 March 2012

Touchdown in Bangkok

The famous Tuk-tuk, synonymous with Thailand
After waking up feeling strangely rejuvenated by my slumber behind a sofa I made plans to get my flight from Heathrow. Upon arriving at the airport I was immediately told by the kind check-in lady "your flight has been cancelled." Images of strangulation and over-sized weaponry that would never make it through customs raced through my mind, provoked by this sweet ladies cold calculating face. A storm cloud formed above my head growing in electrical intensity, I stayed the bazooka hidden down my pants that I had ready to pull out like something in Who Framed Roger Rabbit just long enough for her to say.... "you have been upgraded." All malice suddenly dissipated like a healing breeze, I was like a robot in kill mode and she had just flicked my off-switch, the check-in lady transformed, she became reasonable, maybe even....attractive.

I was originally going to fly with Air India with a stopover in Delhi, the whole flight would have taken 15 hours. Luckily with my new upgrade I was now flying with British Airways on a 747 with no stopover, this meant that I would arrive in Bangkok a full 4 hours earlier. That doesn't stop plane journeys being boring though, check-out these inventive ways to quell boredom. It would seem that every plane ride is plagued by

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Going underground in London

It was getting late, very late. I had just been surprised in a pub by a man on the toilet wearing a welding mask, its ok though, its just Glenn, he had already consumed a bottle of vodka and found the mask in a skip on the way to the pub. Glenn looked like a man on the edge, he was laughing hysterically and there was no sign of him stopping, nor could anyone ignore him, he has an imposing presence and a voice that projects from his 7ft stature.  Normally this would look completely out of place, but we were surrounded by a ragtag crew of 50 roaming fundraisers that live the life of gypsies who meet up in this pub on a weekly basis. You would not believe what these guys get up to, they really know how to live life to the fullest! I used to manage them and there are many debauched stories, (a blog for another time I think).

I had just served 6 months in the oblivion plane of recruitment and decided to sack-off my house and job to go travelling, hurrah! Before I go though I though it would be good to catch up with a few old friends in the nations capital of London before