Welcome to Bangkok

We were two days apart (gasp) as Emilie flew to BKK to start that crazy weird thing called "work" and Brian took two successive night buses through Lao and Thailand in order to save money for more beer and fried prawns on the beach.


Here's those crazy kids in the romantic backseat of a Bangkok-style tuk-tuk. Romantic, that is if you like careening through the muddy, wet utter chaos of Bangkok streets, dodging motorbikes, buses, kids, dogs, food carts, monks, and canals, with only the merest perfunctory nod in the direction of such traffic niceties as stoplights and lanes. It's a free-for-all, really, but quite exhilerating whether in the back of the tuk-tuk or running like the arcade game Frogger across several lanes of busy street. AND all that is much better than being still or walking slowly in these streets, where the pollution can be choking, taking years off your life by the minute.



Here's a beautiful lady in said tuk-tuk, stuck in traffic.




So, after a couple of days in a charming guesthouse in the Thewit District, near the River Chao Praya, Emilie found an apartment to rent for the next three months. Here's Brian exploring first things first - air conditioning!


Now that Emilie has started work at the UN, she's meeting some of the other interns and expat staff. Here we are with a group of them out enjoying the Beer Chang. From left, that's Christina from Austria, who lives in our apartment house; Emilie; Katya, a Russian who had Emilie's position before her and just left for Shanghai, Loon (sp?), an actual Thai, Celine - French, and Christian, an Lichtensteinian with an actual job with the UN.