Bangkok

In transit at the Plai Garden Boutique Hotel at the mo. Flew into Bangkok at 9.30pm and fiddled about getting a transit bus (not the right one...) and a taxi to finally get here. So not seen a lot apart from rows of shops, a few neon pagodas, a beautifully muralled lift interior on my way up to my room and loads of pictures of the king......in a magazine on the plane, portraits at the airport, on posters by the motorway, on baht notes of various values...... Seems very well loved. And wears some fab glasses too.

Catching the plane to Kathmandu at 10am tomorrow so an earlyish start tomorrow. Chuffed to have found some shoes at the Japanese thrift store this morning and a posh-ish long skirt and jacket. Just hope it's not too cold (have heard varying reports) as didn't quite stretch to a hat and woolly scarf (though I was given the offer this afternoon). Let's hope I don't live to regret it.....