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Man I’m ill… serves me right for eating too much street vendor food. Decorated the bathroom well before

Just turned my laptop on to watch a film, and it instantly found a wifi network (thanks!) so here I am posting.

Bangkok is a real cool place and great fun, getting around on taxis & tuk-tuks & also the skytrain. We have been on riverboats, and wandered down khaosan road and seen a reclining budda.

Today (although I’ve been ill) we have been on a Thai cooking course at baipai.com

Will write more later

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I never want to fly with another airline… seriously. They have big seats, plenty of legroom, individual entertainment consoles, a menu to choose your (excellent) dinner from, complimentary drinks (excluding champagne), pillows, blankets, newspapers, magazines… super friendly staff… and all this in cattle class

Dubai is very different to anywhere I have been before, trust us to visit during Ramadan too… its a struggle to get food/drink from sunrise to sunset & ladies must dress modestly. Still, theyre a friendly lot over here… having a great time. Our hotel has made us welcome, so did the staff at the noodle house in the impressive emirates towers where we spent our first evening.

Yesterday we spent at the hotel pool, followed by a visit to the gold and spice souks & then off to Sheikh Zayed Road again, this time to The Olive House for a Lebanese feast, followed by ice cream at Bakin Robbins (yum).

Today we spent at the Jumeirah Beach Habtoor hiding from the 35′+ heat. Silly me got the time of the bus back wrong so we ended up with a long taxi ride.

The important bit that all you geeks out there will want to know is… how is the internet in the Emirates? Expensive in the hotel (LAN in the room, WiFi in the lobby) so this is coming to you from Al Jassa Internet Cafe & Restaurant, Al Ain Centre, Computer Plaza (like a geek souk, quite cool). I beleive that the net is also censored to some degree over here by the goverment. Also I don’t seem to be able to get on messenger (nevermind). Cost here is 10DHR/hr or about 1.50GBP & lasagne, bread & salad is about 3quid & tasty with it.

Next stop is Bangkok, easy day flight over there on Sunday so we should be in good shape when we land. We were jiggered when we got here… Hope we aren’t this jetlagged when we reach Sydney (another nightflight) or we will be in big trouble off Karen, Stu & Laura

Big thanks to all my online pals who wished us well on the trip… including GADOOD, SEOidiot & Esrun – I’ve got friends in all the wrong places.

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Glad I didn’t do too much research into starting a paid blog service as the competition seems to have got a bit better.

Thanks for the heads up Pete.

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Thanks to all of you who turned out on Friday night to see us at The Anchor, I will organise the photos eventually & put them online. Some I think need to be edited slightly.

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Woohoo! no more job!

In other news: looks like the interweb may be in trouble – SEOidiot is promising to get serious (or sober?) and Esrun has returned. We will see what those two have been up to in a couple of weeks when I touch down in Sydney and get serious myself.
Off to The Anchor now for a few hard earned beers. Cya on the other side.

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