Still Here

The protesters have not been evicted from the airports and I'm still in Bangkok.
Quite exciting to be stuck in the middle of it all.

Around Bangkok all seems normal, the news keep publishing information on whats happening but we haven't personally noticed anything ourselves in our day to day lives here. I shall keep my fingers crossed that it stays that way.

Extended stay

I have rebooked my flights for the 9th December. Assuming the airports are all go again by then I will fly home, until then I get another week and a half in Bangkok!

Bangkok Heat

Things are heating up here in Bangkok, with the situation at the airports very close to exploding. I think tomorrow will be key in revealing what will happen next. If I was to guess today I would have said coup for sure but now I'm on the fence. It could be that the Police/army steps in to try to remove the PAD from the airports and if that happens who knows how it will go or whether it will get bloody. Another factor is that pro government forces are threatening to take up arms if the military steps in to oust the current govt. This seems to be a major difference from the last coup which ousted former prime minister Thaksin who is now in exile having fled from corruption charges and potential jail time. Basically the way it looks to me is that either the army steps in risking major civil uprising or it does not and the stalemate continues and I am stuck here indefinitely. We shall see.

Bangkok Airport Closed

I'm supposed to leave Thailand tomorrow and fly to Auckland via Sydney but as of 2 hours ago the airport has been closed because anti government protesters stormed the airport. No mention when it will open again but I suspect I wont be flying home tomorrow.

In other news I had 2 suits made and tonight we ate at a buffet restaurant on the 82nd floor of the Baiyoke sky tower. Needless to say the view was kick ass.

Krabi town

We are sitting in swensons ice cream parlour in the vogue department
store in krabi town killing time at the moment. We were in the pizza
company eating tom yum goong pizza before this. Man that is a good
pizza. Im pretty full right now and the swensons ice cream i just ate
may have made me feel just a little sickly. We fly back to bangkok
tonight and our flight leaves at 9pm which is in 3.5 hours. Time to
wander around for a bit and then negotiate the extortionist taxi
drivers and get ourselves to the airport for a reasonable price. Good
luck to us..

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Lucky restaurant

And here we are, our last night in the islands and we find ourselves
eating at lucky restaurant at the far and of east railey beach. We
just ate a delicious curry pizza and drank mixed fruit shakes. Mmm.
Tomorrow we fly back to bangkok in the evening so we will spend the
morning here and the afternoon in krabi town.

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Not Feeling So Good

Today I are not feeling so good. Quite upset stomach it seems.
Feeling a bit better now that I've eaten buffet breakfast and had a noodle soup for lunch.

Ranjene went on a half day climbing course this morning and learned the basics so that now we can rent some gear and go climbing together.
So long as I'm feeling ok tomorrow we shall rent some gear and go climb.

Red curry in a coconut

After numerous hours this morning fixing and updating nutvs website
ranjene and i walked to phra nang beach for a swim, collecting take
away som tum salad in styrofoam containers to eat for lunch on the
beach. We grabbed fruit shakes on the way also.

After swimming and building sand sculptures we walked back to railey
east and grabbed dinner at yayas which was as the title of this post
suggests a red curry served in a coconut.

Now we are sitting in a nice restaurant on the beach on railey west.
Hans and larissa just ate a sticky rice with mango.

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Railey East

We Are now staying at a really nice place on Railey east that has buffet breakfasts and wifi so I'm happy ;)

We spent yesterday on the beach and went to a really nice restaurant for dinner.
We stayed in Andaman nature resort over on Tonsai the night before and we were pretty unhappy with the whole beach. I remembered the place with such fond memories but now its just so full of trash everywhere and the bungalows seem so run down. Weirdly disappointed.. oh well its pretty sweet over on Railey. (maybe I'm just getting old)

More photos on flickr (another 90 pics on the way up at the mo.)

On the way to krabi

We are now on a mini bus heading for krabi. We left samui this morning
via mini bus then ferry to the mainland. We ran into the usual scam
when we arrived in surat thani and had to change buses. We were told
the bus would not be arriving for 2 hours and they threw in a not so
convincing line about the journey taking 4 hours on the bus anyway so
we had better pay them to take us by mini van. All very amusing.
Anyways we are making our way to krabi slowly.

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