Arrived in Thailand

Finally I left the comforts of home and headed off. having left Heathrow at 10.30pm, after flying from galway via dublin, I flew through the night to Bangkok. Funny though when you flying east the morning arrives quicker and the sun was up within a few hours. The Planes now have tellys in the headrests so i was treated to lots of CDs, DVDs, computer Games and a flight progress map. The technology was telling me that i was flying over Afghanistan so i decided to take a look out my window to see. I had to laugh to myself as there is no way in hell that the yanks were going to catch bin laden down there. The mountains, valleys, deserts and no roads were visible as far as the eye could see. A little while later we flew over the mouth of the ganges which was massive and then over Burma to see wher our money is going but all seemed fine at 32,000 ft. Arrived in Bangkok to a lovly new airport and connecting to my flight to the island of Ko samui was no problem. I thought i was in some South Pacific island with painted open top buses delivering us to a bamboo made terminal. Stephen Corbett met me at the airport and we went to the health resort. I am about to start a 7 day fast with all kinds of mind and body treatments in store. While im coming around to my fast ive had 90 minute massages for E13 and having fabulous lunches for E1.50. There are mad things here with 20 people packed onto a small pickup truck, a family of 4 on a moped and petrol sold in whiskey bottles on the side of the road. anyway will fill you in on how the fast goes next time. R