My god is it September already?

Just back from Bangkok. As usual far too many nights out far too late! Clubbing till 6 in the morning eating porridge at the street stalls before bed, the guys in Bkk. do it every night, I don't know how but there you go!

I went on a canal journey by long tail which was great, of course I am such a crap tourist that I had left my camera at home down in Phuket, so don't hold your breath for pics of that trip. We wove our way past peoples back yards and watched people having their evening bath in the Chao Phraya (which has to be one of the filthiest looking rivers I have ever seen). Some of the houses in the Thonburi area though are very well cared for and obviously belong to wealthy families.

I went to Lumpini twice for dinner and noticed the quality of the entertainment has improved, the place is still under threat of closure but the market sellers don't believe it will ever happen.

I went to a club called saxophone which had very cool personalised swizel sticks in it's cocktails, it played cool jazz and hot funk, the beautiful lead singer had cutting edge technology lipstick, it had a light on the tube which lit your lips as you painted and a mirrored case which you looked in as you applied, if James Bond was a woman this is the kind of makeup she would demand (with a poison dart gun at the other end of the tube of course.

We went to a new club where the attentive staff all have torches (CSI style) to illuminate the way to your dimly lit table when you arrive, and to shine on the bill when you leave. They work in tag teams their is the guy in the suit who watched our table and signalled a shirt but no jacket waiter over every time some one required a drink poured (at our table) or a cigarette lit. That much attention is just too much for me!

There are some fun new adds on the sky train for skinny milk and a scary one for chocolate tube shaped cookies called "collon" ewwww.

The markets were visited, margaritas were drunk and I was completely exhausted and glad to be home last night!