A Shock in Bangkok (wow…that’s lazy even for me)

So I arrived a ciuple of days ago as I said before.  Still haven’t done an awful lot but thought I would make a couple of observations:

• Coming from India it is a bit of a shock walking down the Khao San Road to realise that there are such things as female legs and god forbid even breasts.
• The number of english people is astonishing.  Of course I knew the area was a backpacker havan but I didn’t expect anything on this scale.  It almost seems like a everyone from Loughborough decided to move to Thailand for a couple of days.
• Coming out of the India ‘bubble’ isn’t very easy, especially when you are thrust straight back into the real, or rather neon enchanced world of the Khao San Road.  Coming to terms with pissed people drinking on the streets, hordes of scantily clad Thai women tempting you into bars, fast food signs on every corner and the pumping sound track of the Khao San Road tends to get to your head a bit.
• At times the area, I imagine seeing as I have never been there, is a bit like Malaga.  First afternoon I got here there was a rather overweight cockney guy covered in tattoos off his face (3pm) dancing around, shouting and generally making everyone wish that he would be taken away somewhere.  Alas that didn’t happen and for whatever reason he decided to take someones glasses off their head and stamp on them on what I imagine was a display of primeval superiority……when I went back 4 hours later his head was slumped on a table asleep.
• It’s so clean!  Even the backpacker ghetto is fairly spic and span, compared to India this place is almost like an operating theatre.
• No car horns!  That is one thing that I am not sad to see the back of in India.  You can go down the street without fear of popping your eardrum as some stupidly loud car horn decides to let loose for no reason just as he drives by you.

Now all of the above taken into account, I still quite like the place.  I think a lot of what I am ‘seeing’ is a result of being in a very busy but relatively quiet and certainly sober country for the past couple of months.  Publuic drunkeness for the most part is a non entitiy in India, suddenly seeing it in all its’ glory came as a bit of a shock.

Still I will obviously persavere and am sure that most of what I am seeing is exaggerated in my head.  From what I have seen of Bangkok it is a great city…although I can’t find a waterproof case for my camera for love nor money…and I look forward to seeing more of it.

Will probably go diving for a couple of weeks in a few days before heading up north.  Not sure but will see what the next 2 or 3 days bring.

Peace and Love to you all

xx