One Night In Bangkok

Wednesday 25th Feb, 2009
In the immortal words of Murray Head "One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble". Sitting here I am readjusting to life back at Fantastic Fireworks after having spent the past two weeks travelling in Thailand. My adventures in Thailand are so many but so few that I can speak of. However when asked by Jon for a story the one of my almost kidnapping sprung instantly to mind. After landing in Bangkok and getting into my taxi, a conversation struck up with my driver in which he listed all the "delights" of Bangkok that he could get for me that night if I went to his hotel. After explaining that I just wanted to go to my hotel to sleep he drove me there and proceeded to drive past my Hotel 3 times. When I asked him what he was doing he explained that he was pointing it out so that once I had been to his hotel I could find my way back. As the car drove on towards his hotel and the driver refused to stop when asked, I was forced to jump out of a moving taxi and run away. I had to walk to my hotel in the end but as they say in Thailand "Mai ben rai" (No worries).