We walked up and down this main street for what seemed like a couple of hrs without a plan and the first thing that struck me was some of the poverty on the streets and the beggars/people selling complete shit like wooden carvings and
glowsticks for example. Some of the things i saw i found quite shocking
tbh, people with no arms, missing legs, women carrying children, children on their own etc etc just begging/pleading for minimal amounts of money. There were also a ton of these little stalls with Thai people cooking random crap some of which looked like roasted
coakroach's and other random insects, no jokes. It was
fkin hot and humid as well, plus it was really dirty and you could almost taste the pollution in the air.
We ended up eating some
delish three course meal in some classy restaurant for just a tenner which almost seems wrong given what i had just witnessed. After that we accidentally (honest) stumbled into a place called Nana Plaza which kinda resembled
Patong in
Phuket but just not quite as
degen. Me a Dale grabbed a beer and played some pool in a nearby Irish bar with no whores and then just sat out the front to witness some of the unreal stuff going on.
Ladyboys galore, beggars galore you name it. I
deffo saw
alot more
Ladyboys in Bangkok than
Phuket, they were
fkin everywhere in this Nana Red Light District place. I actually found myself giving
alot of the beggars money that night for some reason and it kinda made me realise how lucky i am. I remember going to bed that night and reflecting on what i had just seen thinking fuck me, was that shit real? What a place Bangkok is, pure sickness, i don't think
i'm going to enjoy the next few days. However, we got up the early the next day to experience more of Bangkok and my opinion began to change
alittle....
Alot of the whores and
ladyboys were gone as were most of the stinking
foodcart things and shitty markets trying to flog
allsorts of crappy fake gear.
What sort of mug buys stuff from these people anyways? :) There were still quite a few beggars hanging about but Bangkok started to feel
abit more like a normal city. However, all of the above was pretty much replaced either by the seemingly endless amount of Thai birds asking you if you want a
fooking massage or these other plums trying to shift you a
fkin suit!
Fk me its about 100 degree's outside, the last bloody thing i want is a
fkin suit,
GTFO u cunts! After spending a good few hrs walking up and down this same stretch of road trying to organise a
fkin city tour it looked like the day was gonna turn into utter bollocks. Despite being slightly both tilted by what had happened that morning what with tour centres being closed or charging
LOL prices we decided to sort ourselves out with something to do and it turned into a pretty good day...
We ended up going to a place called the
Pantip Plaza and then to some random Thai Premier football match. We took every form of transport available in Bangkok including the Sky Train and taxis which were pretty safe and comfortable as well as these other taxi type things called
Tuk Tuk's plus we rode on the back of these
motorcyles which weaved in and out of the busy traffic. I think me and Dale probably had a death wish that day
tbh but it turned out to be
ok and was a good laugh/experience.

First up we went to the
Pantip Plaza because we'd heard this was the place to go for all the
techy stuff like
lappy's and cameras etc which is what we both needed because Dales
lappy was
busto and i had
gg'd my camera that morning (sigh). We got the Sky Train to a place called Siam and then hoped onto the back on these people carrier motorcycles. It was quite a good buzz dodging in and out of all of the busy traffic on the back of these things actually but i didn't exactly feel too safe. Once we got to this
Pantip place Dale was in heaven and pretty much
jizzed in his pants because that fish loves all that stuff and
tbh i was pretty impressed myself. It was full of tons of these little shops selling all sorts of gadgets, plasma's, laptops etc as well as flogging a shit load of rip off gear like pirate software for example. Its illegal in Thailand but there was
sooo much of it here that the old bill must turn a blind eye. I managed to purchase some software to sort out my lagging, porn infested comp and also purchased some hooky
Photoshop and Microsoft Office for
redic cheap prices plus i also brought a new camera. Dale managed to get his comp fixed by this random old Thai dude right at the very top of the plaza in this little workstation crammed full of microchips and component parts etc. The blokes office reminded me of the
Keymaker in the film The Matrix when you see him in his little room full of keys if you can picture the image?
After the whistle blew we decided to take the safety of a normal taxi back to our hotel to scrub up and go out again for munch. Just as we set off i remember stopping in at a nearby bar to see how my beloved hammers were doing versus WestBrom. Some random geezer told me that all he knew was that we were 3-0 down at HT and i was like uitgu5erytkblujk, fkin GG us! Slightly on tilt by the scoreline i sat in some nice little French gaff for munch and i managed to get a glimpse of the WestHam highlights on a t.v. from across the road. I watched the first three goals get banged in then pleaded with the gods for some divine intervention. 3-1...3-2...3-3!!!! weeeee. Were still going down though i reckon what we some of our upcoming fixtures in April but we still having a fighting chance with that comeback. Come on you Irons!!!
On the final day me and Dale went to an old part of Bangkok which wasn't too impressive so we took a long boat trip up the
Chao Phraya River and through the canals which was a good laugh. Dale got soaked on the boat by another passing long boat,
theres a video of it on his blog. It cracks me up every time especially at the end. The words, 'fuck my life
Amatay, how bad do i run' has me
pmsl, classic
Roxxu!
Here's the clip :) It was pretty crazy passing by all these shacks along the canal bank that were basically peoples homes. The water was dirty and the people were poor. That was one of the main things that struck me most about Bangkok actually, how there is loads of high class hotels/eateries etc either next to or interspersed with such poverty and complete shit holes, such a stark contrast. On the boat trip we also stopped off at this cool Buddha temple for a 20 minute mince and we both got some good snaps.

On our last night me and The
Roxxu went to another
degen area similar to Nana, its called Cowboy Soy. Again, its full of whores and dirty western men white and as soon as me and Dale went for a beer in one bar some Thai whore was onto us. She was actually the best looking Thai bird i had seen and her English was
sooo good that she had
prolly chatted to about a million Western men in her life and half of them had
prolly thrown one up her. She even had a slight
english twang to her accent at times that sounded kinda northern,
brummie i think it was,
fkin dirtay brummie bastards! Anyways we
fked her off and ended up hitting some balls at some pool bar. We had our own VIP room and some Thai bird waiting on us hand and foot, serving us drinks, racking each game and even watching the game. When we needed the rest for example she was there right on cue to sort us out, she was basically our slave and all we had to pay was 240 Baht for 1 hr which is about 5 quid,
loool. Even though
i've destroyed Dale all trip on the pool tables he somehow
luckboxed his way to a 5-4 victory before with gave our slave girl a good tip and then
GTFO'd. Bangkok had been another fun experience, next stop Ho Chi
Minh, Vietnam..