September 2011
4 posts
Phuketamine
When the maggot crawled out of the rice and onto the side of the plate, he smiled.
He raised his face to the sun and smiled at me.
At least that is what I said to myself.
The 5 am breakfast that we have started has come to a crashing halt. We are in Phuket.
At a five star resort.
And the maggot has just winked at me.
Pushing aside the breakfast plate we talk about the day ahead… it is a big...
“If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any f#*king...”
– Miles Raymond, Sideways
Chiang Mai-Thai
I wake up at 5.30 am in Bangkok. I am hung over. I most definitely have food poisoning.
For the last three days we have gone as hard as you can in Bangkok. Experienced as much as we could.
We ate 4 dinners last night, drank every cocktail on the pool bar menu and then finished by eating all of the meat on a stick we could find on the street corners around our hotel. The Thai Sausage, the grey...
ONE DAY IN BANGKOK
I step out of the air-conditioned comfort of the car and into the steamy streets of Bangkok.
We have been traveling for 16 hours, although the flight to Kuala Lumpur from Sydney is only 7 hours we missed our connection to Bangkok so we had to attempt to sleep at the airport. I say attempt, because every 5 minutes a chime and announcement has gone off waking me… the only food I have eaten was on...
