One Night In Bangkok

Lovely flight with Cathay and arrived feeling like we could take on the world - which was quite something when we considered how overwhelmed with emotion we were when we left Stanmore on Monday morning!

Funny sight at the airport: a monk using an iPhone 4!! Well we thought it was funny anyway!!

Had just walked into our hotel room (at The Metropolitan) and the phone rang - it was Chris (who we know from the Salisbury Hotel in Stanmore!). We arranged to catch up for a drink and dinner and Chris met us later that night at our hotel. The photo of the 3 of us was taken in the bar at The Metropolitan.

We went to a variety of bars and great spots for people watching and had dinner (Thai of course!) at about 10pm. Chris took us on a quick tour of all the 'interesting' night spots - those you have to do at least once on a visit! It was a fun night and we got back to the hotel at 2 minutes to midnight - we only know this thanks to the cool projected clock outside the lift.

Up reasonably early the next day and headed straight to the river. Went to Wat Pho where we saw the largest reclining Buddha in Thailand.

Looked around the rest of the site but we were over temples by the end of it! They are beautiful but all start to look the same after a while!

Bit more sight seeing up the river and mixing and mingling with the locals for a while.

Then the highlight of the day - a 90 minute energy and vitality massage that we had booked the day before. OMG! These two tiny Thai girls pummeled our bodies back to life! It was amazing and we were so glad we had booked it.

Then a quick visit to the Banyan Tree Hotel next door - to the 61st floor for a quick cocktail and amazing view over Bangkok before heading to the airport for 00:45am flight.

One long leg and one short leg and we will be in St Helens!!!