Friday March 28 2014 - Our One (quiet) Night in Bangkok

Day 1

Home to Bangkok 

Distance:        1,847km (Singapore) 7,524km (Sydney) 7,355Km(Melbourne) (Distances to be verified by Mr. Run - our tour guide)

The first day was by far the longest off the Tour. Five planes were chartered (or seats therein to be exact) and the team buzzed in to the delightfully quaint, in a Heathrow Terminal 1 type-way, Don Muang International Airport.

Mr. G was the first to arrive, check into Best Western and, as instructed under Team Cupcake Orders, headed straight to a pub to establish a base camp. Over the course of the next few hours Adam and ETS (as he was then known) arrived and headed to the newly formed base camp to commence the bonding session. Hayda turned up during the evening and due to an inexplicable brain-fud caused by too much man-flu medication headed straight to his room and to bed.

When EM Forster wrote "A Room with a View" he obviously wasn't stating at the Best Western in Central Bangkok.

ETS was due to be on the same flight as Hayda but had managed to end up on an earlier one. No one knows how and why this occurred, especially ETS.

Last to arrive was David who touched down at midnight. He too, headed to base camp to immediately commence bonding. Rumour has it he displayed an as previously unknown level of initiative and commenced solo-bonding at Changi and bonded all the way to the base camp and then beyond. 

During the evening numerous SMS, What’s APPs and abusive voice messages were left on Hayda’s phone but due to the convenience of Airplane mode he was able to sleep sweetly away, only woken by the occasional screaming of CNN’s Richard Guest. Note-to-self -  remember to turn telly off whilst sleeping on medication.

Road Test of the Classic Song

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a God in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the God's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

So the One Night in Bangkok, unlike the song, contained no oysters, or pearls or ladyboys or any combination there of. It was a non-event for Hayda and not much better for the others who due to the excitement of the impending Tour all got back to their rooms nice and early.

Bangkok apparently. Sorry. None of these places look familiar.

To follow – Day 2 "The Debacle Begins" on the Road/Flight to Surat Thani.