catching up

Hey everyone, sorry for the dearth of posts - I have been busy.

Tuesday I flew to Bangkok to visit the Australian embassy to register Jack as an Australian citizen. When I got there, there were a couple of groups of people ahead of me, and they took AGES. They were doing the same sorta thing, but usually it was old confused type men with their Thai GF on ridiculously high heels making heaps of mistakes on the form, which then needed to be filled out with heaps of eye rolling from the Australian old guy. When it was my turn, I’d read the instructions back to front and everything was completed 100% correct in advance, so I took 5 minutes. The guy serving me must’ve been SHOCKED.

From there I went to MBK and bought some new shorts. They didn’t have the shorts in the fabric I wanted, but they had long pants, and they said “no problem, I can make shorts for you” and whizzed up the legs to turn the long pants into shorts. Voila!

Then I went to The EuroGourmet Bistro for goulash with gnocchi, and a reuben sandwich. They were fantastic. The cheesecake desert was not fantastic, just average, but maybe that’s because I was really too full to be eating cheesecake anyway.

I headed to the cheap Ever Rich Inn on Sukhumvit between soi 5 and 7. I recall Brek stayed there once, pre-Mint, and the room was the cheapest and therefore didn’t have a window. This sounded perfect as I needed to get to bed early for an early start the next day. It was perfect. I was in bed by 7pm.

Yesterday I was up at 4am for a visa run to Cambodia. The bus left at 5am on the nose and got to Poipet n about 3 and a half hours. We then walked over the border and had breakfast at the Grand Diamond casino. Dawdled around for another 40 minutes, then walked back across the border and headed home. Once back in Bangkok, around 2pm, I headed to The EuroGourmet Bistro again for more goulash, this time with the pork knuckle. No cheesecake though - I had learned my lesson! I caught a cab from there to the airport and flew home.