Tue 2/11: BKK Visiting on foot

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Although the weather forcast wasn't al that great, the sun was shining and it was really hot.
We decided to visit Bkk main tourist attractions on foot today, starting with the ones which are most nearby to our current  guesthouse in Banglamphu area.
1)Grand Palace
2)Tempel of emerald buddha
3)Wat Pho (lying Buddha)
4)Wat Arun (damn those stairs are almost completely vertical up!) --> Line was scared going back down.

5)Golden Mount Temple
6)Loha Prasat
Khaosan Road?!? => Ridiculous street which looks like a strip in Ibiza...strange.
In total we walked 15 kilometers, a footmassage sounded like music in our ears.
However we didn't do this because we wanted to stay within our budget/day.

This evening we meet up with some friends in a bar to chat and maybe get some Do's and Don'ts for Thailand since their trip is almost finished. Tomorrow we change guesthouse & then decide what to do. Maybe we will take a short trip somewhere up north for the weekend since our bikes will only arrive in BKK on Tuesday next week.
This means we certainly will have to take a train within the next three weeks if we want to be in Hatyai to catch our flight to Kuala Lumpur.

Ps. Lieve familie en vriendjes/vriendinnetjes, er zullen ook regelmatig blogs gepost worden in het Nederlands hoor.
Ardan typt ze gewoon in het Engels wanneer hij begint omdat hij dit ook door zijn collega's wil laten lezen en door iedereen die geïnteresseerd is over de hele wereld. Jaja, er zijn al Japanners, Amerikanen,... op onze blog geweest :)

L&A

Mon 1/11: First night at Bkk

Arrived at Bkk airport, everything is new & modern.
Picked up 2x dtac sim cards. You can now call us on:

Ardan: +66 8 732 52 407
Line: +66 8 751 77 450

At the time of typing we are enjoying our first thai meal.
It's good, a bit spicy although it will probably only get more spicy...
Hotel room is a bit cheap, but this is the way to live.
Back to basics!

We also got a small biking puppet from Line's family which we have to carry along for the trip and gather pics from in nice places. We gave him the name "Peyo" (the manufacturer name ;-)
Pics to come....

Till next time. A&L -now all is good, now still need to get the bikes in our hands-

Sun 31/10: Departure Bxl to Bkk

Our travel agent =>Joker doesn't know his stuff!

To cut a long story short we didn't leave with our bikes from Bxl airport.
If you fly 2 airlines (BA & Qantas) who have different requirements for bike packing you are in for problems...we can now tell you from experience. Fine, lesson learned. Still gonna send them a pissed mail & ask the cargo costs back.

They wil be sent to Bkk by Cargo via Andries. THANKS ANDRIES.
We will tell you what adress to sent them.
Probably NOT the 1st hotel we are now in in BKK (Sawasdee Smille Inn) we will try to
book an extra 2 days in BKK in another guesthouse (NEW ROAD GUESTHOUSE).
It is in a more quite area of BKK and already more to the south which should make our exit a bit more easy when we leave the big city. DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED

A&L

Sat 30/10: All systems are go!

Everything on the list has been tackled. Succes!
We are ready to leave tomorrow afternoon for Bangkok.

Bikes & gear are packed.
It's not the best looking packages ever to be shipped, but lets hope they make it to Bangkok in 1 piece.

 

Line also found some bike tracks around bangkok area on the net.
Have enough time on the plane to look at them & decide which ones to ride.

Fri 29/10/2010: Almost on the plane...still lots to do.

Sunday afternoon we get on out flight from Brussels to Bangkok.
Sweet, can't wait...but still so many things to do!

-Pack bikes & all the gear in boxes (its not gonna be easy)
=>Took us a while to figure out the final pack list, but we managed. check out the gear page
-Go & pick up a honda camino for storage until we get back ;-)
-Take additional passport pictures etc.
-Meet people all over the place before we can actually leave
-Final fix on the mitsubishi van (it burst a coolant leak last week & I rather fix it now then 6 months from now)
-Fix the demolition for the house
-...

We'll let you know of the final condition on sunday...wish us luck.


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