London - Bangkok - Sydney

I'm sitting at work, waiting for my boss to call and update me on the work he has for me (gone for two weeks as of today) and trying to get through 150+ emails.

LONDON
the city itself is great. Much better than i imagined, though i would've liked to see the country side. Actually it would've been good to walk the country side of all the countries we went to instead of seeing it through the windows of a train or coach. But i guess you could spend years over there and not see everything.

After my last post dani and i strolled down toward trafalger sq and futher toward shakspeares theatre. Taking a detour we found lunch at walkabout cafe (australian pub that sold Forsters *shudder* and stella in which i partook a pint) After lunch stopped in a park and it was this point that Dani, who had been not feeling well all day, urgently
We made our way back to the worst hotel wemarked a statue of some english bloke with her best rendition of a the technicolour rainbow. We slowly made our way back to the worst hotel we've ever stayed in, stopping at every park on the way. Finally caught a cab, picked up our bags and headed off to Heathrow. In the end Dani wasn't well 8+ times.

BANGKOK
Dani was able feeling better by the time we boarded and headed off to Bangkok. The flight wasn't too bad, though British Airways needs to update their inhouse entertainment system. I think i slept.

Coming out of the Bangkok airport, we were hit by an intense heat and humidity which the thai seem to shrug off. We, on the other hand, were groggy from the flight and the heat and humidity didn't help with our mood or the fog in the brain... we paid 700 baht for a taxi to the hotel... (thats... 700/28= Aufd$25) which i'm sure was a rip-off but at that stage we didnt care.

Dani had outdone herself by booking the Hotel Athenee, Le Meridian. 5 stars of relaxation in one of the most confusing cities. The taxi ride over was an eye opener (they were still pretty open from amsterdam). Huge skyrises sat next to shanty alleys. Rundown housing, rundown units sat next to gleeming windows. And wherever you looked green cloth covered buildings in varying degrees of constructed erection.

The hotel itself was air conditioned so you'd forget how hot and humid it was outside. Gold and wood panelling and marble everywhere. A bellhop took our bags, and my 5 weeks of conditioned distrust of anyone parting me and my bags kicked. But i shouldn't have worried, because almost as soon as we left the fast, effecient, wood panelled elevator walked along the lemon-grass scented walkway and into our refrigerated room on the 19th floor, there was a ringing (the room doorbell) and the same bellhop had our bags on a trolley.

Do you get the picture that our stay in bangkok wasn't meant to be alot of work?
We ventured out onto the streets a few times into the markets for some sweat-shop quality designer fasion. And anything else made of wood that would make it through customs. We didn't get much from bangkok and Dani was somewhat dissapointed that she couldn't find anyone selling satay chicken. The street vendors had an interesting array of food, none of which we wanted to taste though. I guess our unwant of gastro was the main reason.

We swam, lay in the sun, sipped cocktails (two cocktails was the same price as dinner, both equalling around aud$20). Our three nights (three and a half days) came to a quick end and we boarded another flight to Sydney.

SYDNEY
Bangkok to Sydney was rather quick. And so, i didn't actually sleep.
Most of the trip i was reading the Bourne Omnibus; the book itself is huge and i've almost finished the bourne identity.
We watched the sun come up as we hit the tarmac. 6am.
The rest of the day went by as a blur; picked up by Dani's parents, dropped our bags off, saw my parents and finally fell asleep around 3 in the arvo. I had wanted to stay awake as long as possible, but a short kip was needed. We Finally fell asleep again at 9.30.