Yes hoor! Pictures!

A tripje to Laos is nog best kind of a big deal. Ik mean you sit toch at least three hours in the train. After that must you minstens one and a half hours at the border kloten en to Vientiane go with een tuktuk or something. Dat is why these mensen are asleep. And because ik per maand only some pictures kan uploaden is dit even all the foto's. But there is more. And it comes eraan. If you can dit not readen than is that too jammer, for me het saves a whole lot of tijd :)

Back from Bangers

Bangkok was a blast. Got a bag full of books (and I mean full). Saw an unpirated, undubbed English movie (Inside Man by Spike Lee) on a really big screen. Ate more sushi and sashimi than there's fish in the sea at Fuji. Had the Whopper I craved (and waved it around in plain sight for our manic friend in the picture to see). Shopped 'til I dropped. Bought the wrong shoes but managed to return them. Slept in a 400 Baht room that was fine somehow (and it's on the MBK-mall's doorstep). Met a Dutch guy that drives like a Thai guy. Got more books. Skipped all the touristy stuff we had planned. Got soaking wet from the rain. Got a cab to the bus that made an most interesting detour trough some of the lesser known outskirts of Bangkok. Then got on the most perfect 6 hour bus to Khon Kaen and that's all she wrote. Strangly enough, I liked the trip but it was very good to be back. Away from the noise, all the people and the pollution. Maybe I'm getting old or something. Oh Yeah: we had no trouble with angry mobs, curfews, riots or whatever. PM Taksin bowed out on the second day we where there. No sweat. Next up (after Songkran): Laos...

Als ze me zoeken...

Ik hoop dat Bangkok er klaar voor is: wij komen er in iedergeval aan. En de politieke en sociale impasse dan? En de rellen? En de nood toetstand? En de avondklok? Zal allemaal wel. Ik heb nog niks van gehoord. Trouwens: een mens moet boeken hebben en Japans eten op z'n tijd. later meer:)