Day 1

Goodbye!

Today was the strangest day of my life so far. Sheer joy and excitement at the adventure ahead offset by the sadness of all that I'm leaving behind. The journey to the airport was a solemn one contemplating the farewell's, but as goodbye's go it was pleasant – minimal sadness. The flight with Qatar Airways was probably the best I've ever had, countless films, tv programmes and free drinks.. LOTS of free drinks. Swapping at Doha couldn't have been easier, and the second flight into Bangkok literally just flew by. That's when the realisation of what Josephine and I are doing finally set in. Landing in Bangkok, going through immigration, and boarding the sky train to the wrong station. Easily rectified by a 20 minute taxi journey that cost 75 Thai Baht – the Equivalent of £1.50. All that travelling really takes it out of you – a lot more than you think it would, but when we arrived at the hotel the climax was definitely worth it! All the plans to explore and go straight out were dropped, as we collapsed on (the most comfortable) bed and spent the first 5 hours of our time in Bangkok asleep.

 When we woke up, we got straight to it and went out to find a shop for some supplies. It wasn't far to look, and they've even got Boots' here, and they're everywhere. Authentic. We had planned to go for a few drinks and some food – then Jonny arrived. Not seen this guy for months, and to finally be back together was brilliant. No way we were wasting valuable drinking time with food! The first few bars were quite relaxed, but the journey there – on the back of a moped was something a bit different – felt like I was in GTA. Then we went a bit crazy, and went to our first go go bar. Lets just say the staff at this place were not shy! Got a few pictures, but then got in trouble for having our camera out and they deleted them all. Wounded.

Flying through Bangkok on mopeds

Reunited at last!

Then we went on a bit of a bar crawl, ending up in a club in a multi storey car park with a Thai band covering all the chart toppers. At around midnight, Bangkok had finally written us off, and we had to go home. Our first 24 hours in Thailand couldn't have gone better though, and if this journey carries on like this – I can only imagine how good it's

going to be. So that's all for day 1. This log is designed to be my personal thoughts and experiences, I hope you'll enjoy reading it over the coming months and it's my plan to write in this as frequently as possible, depending on how drunk I am. I'll keep you all updated with how this adventure pans out, but until next time, Captain Kelly signing out.