Saturday, October 21, 2006
Staging Post
I have made it to the two thirds point of my trip from Kyoto to Kathmandu...
After some brief excitment this morning because the only Japanese Railway line that you cannot buy your ticket with a credit card is the line which goes to the airport :-S and I didnt have enough cash for the ticket... nor were there any ATMs open that took foreign cards at 7am I finally managed to find a taxi driver who took VISA cards and persuaded him (thorugh confused English) to bill my card the amount and give me some cash... probably against the VISA rules but it worked... phew.
Now I am in Bangkok (in it has to be said a very nice hotel, but youd hope so given that it cost twice what most places I've stayed in cost, and it's in a cheap country) but even here the staff enthusiastically made it clear that I might like to enjoy a 'Thai Massage' and which areas of my body I might like to be included in this.......
Anyway off to KTM tomorrow morning all being well (Thai airways, whio were very good to get here this morning. They seemed to expect to serve straight spirits at every drinks stop though, included a special offering of congac after dinner, but I suppose its cheap here!)
Barny
After some brief excitment this morning because the only Japanese Railway line that you cannot buy your ticket with a credit card is the line which goes to the airport :-S and I didnt have enough cash for the ticket... nor were there any ATMs open that took foreign cards at 7am I finally managed to find a taxi driver who took VISA cards and persuaded him (thorugh confused English) to bill my card the amount and give me some cash... probably against the VISA rules but it worked... phew.
Now I am in Bangkok (in it has to be said a very nice hotel, but youd hope so given that it cost twice what most places I've stayed in cost, and it's in a cheap country) but even here the staff enthusiastically made it clear that I might like to enjoy a 'Thai Massage' and which areas of my body I might like to be included in this.......
Anyway off to KTM tomorrow morning all being well (Thai airways, whio were very good to get here this morning. They seemed to expect to serve straight spirits at every drinks stop though, included a special offering of congac after dinner, but I suppose its cheap here!)
Barny
# posted by Barny @ 2:15 PM 
