Sunday, June 23, 2013

Got to Krabi

Looking over the Bangkok Air check-in desks
Another bumpy flight, but the discovery of a good airline -- Bangkok Air was very comfortable.  It's good catching up with everyone and the hotel is spectacular.  I only need to walk for about 2 minutes (past the pool) to get to wade in the Andaman Sea (which is very warm).


Landing in Krabi

The plants outside my hotel room

A two minute walk from my hotel room



That picture doesn't leave much to the imagination

My seat after I've given my talk

Even the birds are very hot!

Oh that sauce!

Unfortunately I wasn't on an A380
I was told that the sauce was just green chillies with red chillies with salt and garlic, but there must have been some oil in there as well.  Poured onto fried rice it was not only wonderful, but it knocked the back of my head off. Just as well they seemed to have an infinite supply of Chang beer.  The main course was a pork red curry, but it didn't taste like any red curry that I've had in Australia.  It was amazing.  I had another beer.

The train from Bangkok airport to the city is very safe.
All balloons are banned.
I'm not actually sure where I was.  I'm not even sure that it was a restaurant.  I discovered that jumping on a train in Bangkok and getting off in the middle of nowhere sort of leaves you in the middle of nowhere.  In the humidity I randomly walked down a main road and saw a hospital and a gas station.  Both had shrines outside.  I was hungry.  I then spotted what seemed to be a restaurant, but when I went in the lady was putting the children to bed and the dog came to say hello to me.  Anyway, they gave me the wonderful meal described about and charged me ~$10 for it.

I then caught the train back to the hotel.

The day started in a rather rainy Sydney.  The flight was enjoyably bumpy, but I didn't get any sleep.  Instead I managed to get some work done and watch countless episodes of Top Gear.  The lady next to me was very chatty.
I'm sure that this isn't the main tourist area of Bangkok
Plenty of nice views of places to buy cars
Here it is!! The sauce is in that little pot on the right!