Somewhere in Krung thep mahanakhon amorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop ...

Or otherwise called Bangkok (that is part of the official name, which Guiness states that it beats all those strange welsh and german names in terms of length)

There has been a slight change of plans - the bridge over the river kwai made famous by the film with Alec Guiness (a different Guiness), will have to wait a few days - we decided enough was enough and we really couldnt wait any longer for a sunny beach with white sand and coconut trees. So we are off tomorrow morning to Ko Chang, an island to the east of Bangkok. Already booked a hotel in the Blue Lagoon (not the one with Brooke Shields but hopefully very similar!)

Today we decided to do a bit of culture and visited the National Museum of Thailand, the biggest one in South East Asia. It had a pretty cool section on the entire history of Thailand, with a very prominent section on the best nation in the world, the Portuguese, who alone amongst all other nations had a section dedicated to them (which you can see on the photo, it seems that the portuguese drove the early development of the nation of Thailand!!). Lenka was particularly disappointed Czech Republic was not mentioned at all, not even on the list of nations which the Thais did not know existed. Buuh!

We will try to connect from the island but as we are not even sure about the reliable supply of electricity there, this may be difficult (just kidding :) )

Big greetings to all you fellow travellers who join ours through the comments, they are always appreciated!