Well, you'll be sad to know that none of my belongings (the show-stopping ones) turned up, as was always likely to be the case. However, I did get my flip flops back. Some dizzy French woman had put them on 'accidentally' and I recognised her from the Internet cafe walking in the street. Being in no mood to act coy at this point, I challenged her on her oversized footwear.
'Oh, I am zzzorry, I didn't realizzze, I zzzzought zzzey felt a beet big'. I think that deserves the childish remark of my schoolboy youth - chinny!!
So, there was nothing else to do other than to scoot back from Pai, northern Thailand to Bangkok and quite a scoot it was. Bus, moto taxi, mini bus, (earthquake...seriously), overnight train and Skytrain finds me back at Ros & Dan's off Thong Lo and elbows deep in trying to bail out the leaky vessel that is my current situation.
So, new passport being applied for and the wheels of that procedure have been greased by a piece of pre-trip planning quite against the grain for me - I had photocopies of my passport and driving licence in my main pack. Flight tickets being re-issued altho' there's the usual hassle associated with United Airlines that I won't go into for fear of curling up into a ball and muttering incoherently to myself. Can't do a lot about the Thai visa until I get a new passport, which could take up to 10 working days. Ooops.
Also bit the bullet and bought myself a replacement camera from Bangkok's premiere electronics mall - Pantip Plaza. Love the name. Got the same one as I lost, 2GB memory card and Samsonite case (I mean for the camera, not a suitcase) for half the price I paid for mine eight months ago. Chuffed about that.
On a note of fun, high jinks and high balls: Jo Bole rocked into town en route from Kuala Lumpar to Brunei. OK, so that's a strange 'en route' but it was mighty fine to see her...again (last time in Broome, Western) and to celebrate, slightly belatedly, her birthday. Wanna see some snaps?...OK then:
Me looking a little startled chez DazRon and unusually wearing a yellow t-shirt.
Jo & me...seemingly avoiding low flying aircraft.
The usual silly snap that tickled me. From a convenience store. I guess if you need pressure cooker spare parts, it is pretty convenient. Sorry.
1 comment:
Zut alors! A more telling indictment of Sarkozy's nouvelle France I can not imagine. Frogs abroad in bare-faced flip flop appropriation: this would not have happened with Segolene Royale in power!
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