Blogging from Bangkok!

Hi all
Kat and Ed here (or Mr and Mrs Gillett!), blogging from an internet cafe in the Asia Hotel in Bangkok just before we head off to the airport to go to Koh Samui for the rest of our honeymoon. Nothing to do until our transfer gets here, already checked out, so we thought we’d blog!

Good news. Wedding ring doesn’t appear to be affecting typing performance. Bonus. Thai symbols in addition to slightly odd layout on keyboard are however
So, what have we been up to. Well we had a traditional thai “brunch” out on the street the first morning we were here with the locals at a street stall, noodles and soup and dim sum. Lovely! We then proceeded to take our lives in our hands by taking a tuk tuk around town for most of the day, with our friendly tuk tuk driver Leo (”like the lion!”). Leo didn’t rip us off as much as he could have done, and much to his credit appeared to take us to some of the better places where he could get his commission!! (even to a very good jewellery store where he didn’t get any commission - very impressive!). So we went over to the river for a private cruise in a long boat, and saw some traditional bangkok houses by the river, we went to a tailor to get the seemingly mandatory tailor made suit (Yup - Ed got a new Cashmere suit, three silk shirts and a silk tie thrown in for good measure - all for