title	A Working Trip to Bangkok, Thailand - 2nd October 2004
intro	Another work trip to the Far East commences with a stopover in Bangkok for a couple of days. There's a day of work-related stuff, but it leaves an evening and a whole day to roam around the heaving, smelly and very hot city. This features an entertaining run around the city in a Tuk-tuk, visiting various temples until the inevitable 'my cousin's shop where tourists get government subsidy' diversion at which point the Tuk-tuk is ditched in favour of Shanks's Pony. There's also a trip on the needle boats that ply the rivers, which took a few goes to get the hang of: they stop for just a few seconds, so there's no time to discuss destinations or anything and then they're off. You have to hope for the best that they're even going the right way.
img_0020	Street food near the hotel
img_0021	Down on the hot street
img_0023	Chillies and mystery bags of vegetables
img_0024	Bangkok street scene
img_0026	A cheerful woman sells meat on a stick
img_0027	A pop-up café
img_0030	Under the bridge
img_0031	Evening market stalls
img_0032	A stroll down a side street
img_0034	Mobile scooter-driven food stalls
img_0040	The Erawan Shrine, dedicated to Phra Phrom
img_0042	A scene of incense and candles
img_0044	Some traditional Thai dancing occurs
img_0049	An offering of fruit and flowers to the god
img_0050	The Erawan Shrine
img_0056	The Thai instantiation of a Hindi god
img_0057	More smoky scenes
img_0059	Thai dancers
img_0101	Wooden elephants with gold foil on their heads
img_0104	Nosher's dinner
img_0105	The river taxis only stop for a few seconds
img_0108	The needle-boat churns up a big wake
img_0110	Crowded riverside houses
img_0111	A hard-hatted river pilot keeps an eye out
img_0113	Riverside houses
img_0115	A woman with baskets of fruit roams around
img_0116	The temple of the standing Buddha
img_0118	Statues covered with squares of gold foil
img_0123	A massive standing Buddha
img_0126	A back-street scene
img_0128	Over the rooftops
img_0134	Palm trees in a garden
img_0141	An incredibly-ornate temple building
img_0142	Another gold-leafed statue
img_0146	A woman and a wheelbarrow
img_0147	Nosher's tuk-tuk driver makes some running repairs
img_0148	Some crazy wiring
img_0151	Wat Benchamabophit - the Marble Temple
img_0155	Massive lilly pads
img_0168	Another western tourist looks at statues
img_0172	Old dudes play chequers outside a cafe
img_0177	Every car is a taxi
img_0183	Views from Phukhao Thong Wat Saket
img_0185	Bangkok City
img_0192	The view down to the river and the needle boats
img_0193	Fake plastic Buddhas
img_0196	Pinnacles at the top of the Golden Mount
img_0199	Nosher in the required bare feet
img_0201	Another self-portrait in the Filipino Barong shirt
img_0208	This is where the world's mahogony is going
img_0211	More wheel-based shops
img_0213	A woman with a sack-barrow
img_0214	Down by the riverside
img_0218	One of a million tuk-tuks heads off up the street
img_0219	Plastic-wrapped Buddhas
img_0225	Back on the river in a packed river taxi
img_0227	The needle boats of Bangkok
img_0228	Another taxi steams up the river
img_0235	The oddly-deserted foyer of the hotel
img_0239	The traditional "view out of the hotel" photo
img_0245	There's a trip to a huge night market with music
img_0247	More Thai-pop randomness with an umbrella
img_0248	Back-stage fruit sellers at San Luam Night Bazaar
img_0249	Bright lights, hot city
img_0250	The hotel window view, by day
img_0252	Nosher's hotel room