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PS And I give you Campari Orange cocktail. Don’t knock it til you try it. It’s fab, and one of your 5 a day! Hic.
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25th May 2023 12:46 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And greetings from our 3rd hotel in Singapore, first was the InterCont Singapore, then the Fullerton Hotel (a deal was available on hotels.com that we couldn’t refuse, plus we got to use a big number voucher) and now the IC Robertson Quay. Sun is going down, as is wine and nibbles, with a great urban view.
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Will bung up some more pics tonight, subject to VC consumption.
28th May 2023 12:10 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Here ya go.
Back at the botanic gardens, just to monitor the situation.
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And when it rains it rains, though this is nothing like the downpour yesterday morning, then it was truly chucking it down. Luckily we just had a look and went back to bed.
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Giant Ironing Board again.
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And breakie on Saturday, for those of a hungry disposition.
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Gardens by the bay, and it was pretty hot when the sun was out. Lovely!
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Our hotel for Sat night. And a very nice old joint it is too. Diet got busted with AYCE BBQ buffet on Sat night.
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No comments you lot!!
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Our fave mode of tpt here, the big green buses. Great when you get top deck front row, even better when SWMBO has had enough AC and I get max blast of coolness.
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Walk up the river.
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Off to Sing Zoo today and tonight, not sure we’re going to find a wombat t-shirt though.
29th May 2023 2:42 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And good bye Singapore, we’ll until next year. Loved our stay there and looking forward to returning.
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Gratuitous view of a SingAF Airbus tanker when we were taxiing out for what seems like forever.
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And hello Bangkok!
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It’s hot, it’s humid but loving being back here. View from the lounge of the HI after sunset.
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We are changing hotel tomorrow to the IC, all of 50m away. It’s just undergone a several month refurbishment and we are aiming to be the first peeps to check in. We’re hoping for a marching band, ticker tape parade and a fly past. Well if we had the latter in Windsor NSW courtesy of the SingAF it would be rude for the Thai AF not to raise the bar.
And got great pics from the Singapore zoo and bird park, will bung up later.
31st May 2023 1:07 pm
kajtzu
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BKK is full of delicious local food places, it is impossible to not eat too much there
31st May 2023 7:20 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Agreed, the light blue pins with the white squares in the middle are Michelin listed street food eateries. Going to be good scoffing through them!
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1st Jun 2023 1:28 am
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1st Jun 2023 8:15 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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A few zoo pics. The zoo visit was 4 parts, the main zoo, the River Safari, the Night Safari and the Birds Paradise that had just opened after moving from Jurong, W(ish) Singapore.
A few random pics from the main zoo. we’d booked feeding sessions with giraffes, elephant and, in the night safari, Indian rhino. All bucket list items, and fantastic. Plus cf prices in other zoos an absolute bargain at £5 a ticket!
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SWMBO wasn’t that impressed with my photography of her feeding the giraffe. It’s a good pic, of the giraffe anyway.
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And a gratuitous pic of the train tunnel through the front of the driverless train. Great view and no train drivers to go on strike, deffo a win-win.
Ducking for cover!
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1st Jun 2023 11:37 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Moo wrote:
You know the airlines are starting to weigh passengers now......
Our next flights are on Singapore Int Airlines, Singaporeans are built like sticks! We’re just providing some decent ballast to trim the aircraft!!
And finally greetings from the newly refurbished IC hotel in Bangkok. It’s good to be back in one of our fave hotels. We were 2nd peeps to check in, lots of fanfare and bowing, even pics with the new Gen Manager. Shame i was wearing my khaki shorts and Maui t-shirt that should have been consigned to the laundry bag a while ago.
View from room on 34th floor.
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SWMBO received a boooooooootiful jasmine garland. Smelt booooooootiful, masking the soggy t-shirt smells.
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Wine and chocs arrived. Strange only one glass but chocs were fab!
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We have lounge access so evening cocktails and nibbles so doubt wine will be opened. View from said lounge this morning.
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This afternoon was spent out on the river. Luckily no worries re traffic, good to see the Asian moto GP starts haven’t finished!
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And views from on the river. It was a very pleas 36c, lower humidity than Singapore so fantastic temp. We’re back to “if it’s under 30c then it’s a bit nippy” territory.
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Now settled in lounge, sipping fizz and scoffing canopies. It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it!
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1st Jun 2023 11:59 am
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PS I think I over did it on the wasabi!!
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Brought tears to my eyes, literally!
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And boooooootiful reflected sunset in the “nannite building”.
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1st Jun 2023 12:31 pm
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And pics from today. Another day, another trip up the Chao Phraya River in the orange ferry. At 37p per trip deffo the best way to get up the river.
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A morning in the Grand Palace. 35c temps plus and wall to wall sunshine, boooooooootiful. Hope nobody is allergic to gold.
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Model of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, looking forward to getting back there next year.
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Not often I need to resort to vertical pano shots!
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Was scorchio for changing the guard, Thai style, but they didn’t miss a beat.
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We used the regular river boats, pretty good and nice and cool with the through breeze. We haven’t used the long tail boats, seen too many terrified tourists riding them.
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All powered by massive great diesel truck engines. Just like out of Man with the Golden Gun.
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And when we were schlupping wine and scoffing nibbles spare a thought for these poor peeps in the cars and vans, they didn’t move for over 20 minutes. Looks like Bangkok traffic hasn’t gotten any better since we were last here in Dec ‘19!
It’s a religious festival day tomorrow so lounge is dry, good job we still have that bottle of VC in the above pics.
2nd Jun 2023 2:23 pm
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Some most excellent pictures (your skills with camera are coming on a treat )
I looked closely but couldn’t see your picture of you hand feeding the tigers MY24 Defender 90 X-Dynamic HSE
MY18 Disco 5 HSE Santorini Black Now Gone.
2nd Jun 2023 7:56 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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They were being thrown little treats, 1/4 chooks (too much time down under) so kind of feeding time. Peeps can feed tigers but was w/end only and sold out, we weren’t there at w/end, plus not sure re SWMBO feeding me to the tigers!
PS And re photography, anything with that much gold and bright colours is just crying out to have its pic taken. Plus in the heat and the strong sunshine the combo really pops!
PPS It’s been a while since you lot have been fed, figuratively speaking, here’s Pad Thai for breakie.
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3rd Jun 2023 1:55 am
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Morning folks, and another boooooooooootiful day in Bangkok.
And for those waking up peckish here’s Kai Krata, and no that’s not how it’s pronounced, that I guarantee.
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4th Jun 2023 2:10 am
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And pics from travels yesterday.
Firstly the massive w/end market. Everything you could imagine was here, except wombat t-shirts! Thai t-shirts to elephant trousers, silk flowers to coal scuttles!
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And not forgetting the food court.
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This chap did fantastic deep fried bananas for 50 Baht, most scrummy!
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The to Chinatown, past yet another temple while we were busy figuring out where we wanted to be/getting lost. Google maps is generally pretty good but falls down when the street names are shown in Thai!
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Found it. Most shops were closed as it was Thai holiday but still bustling enough.
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Just about avoided photobombing a K-pop type photo shoot. Tuktuk drivers landed on his feet, lots of time and not burning gas!
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And wiring work that Vietnam Telecom would be proud of.
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It was a hot and sweaty day, this is a bit of a record for the old ball cap. I keep suggesting it goes in with the laundry but that’s not going to happen. SWMBO thinks the colour will run, that’s SWMBO-speak for “it’s a total biohazard so the only place it’s going is on your head!”.
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Off back to the river today, couple of big temples to visit.
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