| Hello and welcome from the Land of Smiles. | | | | stickers, a meter and a sign on top and you |
| Arrived on time, well fed and refreshed. Thank | | | | quickly accelerate into the final minute of grand |
| you Bangkok for your smoking rooms. Went | | | | Prix qualifying. |
| straight through immigration and customs no | | | | In this situation you hope he's not colour blind, the |
| problem and was met by my girlfriend the | | | | severely frayed seat belts are part of the design |
| Wonderful Wi. Stepping outside the terminal we | | | | and the air bag is not at that minute being |
| dropped straight inside the giant wok that is | | | | expertly withdrawn from a corpse in some |
| Thailand. Red hot and full of spice.We headed | | | | Bangkok morgue. I spun life's coin and lost. Excuse |
| straight for the taxi rank and were greeted by a | | | | the pun but we arrived in Hua Hin quicker than |
| just landed American gentleman. | | | | expected. The fare was settled, I gave a |
| Chat, chat, spiel and he then says to me "London, | | | | monetary tip and added one from life, "If you |
| heathrow, did you fly from that goddamn terminal | | | | ever take up hot air ballooning fill the basket full |
| 5." Couldn't resist it, tapped my suitcase and | | | | with sand". He didn't understand and I didn't care. |
| answered "still got this so I don't think so". The | | | | He screamed away from the starting grid with |
| taxi pulled up and it was your stereotyped blacker | | | | me praying to my new found god that I would |
| than black sunglasses taxi man. You just had to | | | | never be crossing the lights he was approaching |
| hope behind the glasses sat whiter than white | | | | on the day his elder brother had won the national |
| clear brown eyes and not the man who had lost | | | | lottery.We entered the hotel lobby very nervously |
| his only girlfriend to his elder brother and they | | | | and I was surprised to see the the floor wasn't |
| were now married with two children. In Thailand | | | | coated in eggshells but an old style Thai brown |
| 99.9% of men faced with a steering wheel turn | | | | floor tile. |
| into a gung ho go kart racer, slap on some taxi | | | | |