Bangkok....

Still no images - will get some loaded up as soon as I get home! Bangkok is so so mad, huge and polluted but INCREDIBLE, the people are so brilliant - especially the taxi drivers...we are not doing too well with the buying we wanted to do, 8 year old boys just want to stay poolside and eat room service ("mum, I don't want to see another bowl of rice EVER or a fried fish and Bangkok is horrible and and and") plus its so dusty out on the streets even your teeth get covered if you are smiling alot....tonight we are headed to the river (there are ferries every 5 minutes up and down to night markets and food markets) to get some air and go to some antique fairs....on Saturday we went to the famous Chatuchat market...so big that it has its own map (Nancy Chandler maps quite good but not up to date as I found out after a few frustrating hours). The vintage shop I wanted to visit is not there anymore and most of the stuff for sale is your average t shirts, sarongs and weird wooded frogs....hey, we had our first family holiday row on Friday when we arrived - cor it was not pretty, big Rob caused little Rob to run in a panic through the turnstile at the Sky Train station and get caught in the gate and told off by a warden and to top it all off hurt himself as well, I called Big Rob a bad name in front of little Rob (sorry) and he shouted his head off at the nice peaceful sky train platform....little Rob then told us to shut our gobs (exact words) and we all sulked for a while and then realized we had not eaten hardly or drank any water..once we had replenished ourselves all looked bright and bushy tailed again and off we went for supper.....we are back in the UK on Tuesday and I CANNOT WAIT - see my family, wear some different clothes and sleep in my own bed....love Samaya xxxx