I’ve been a bit slack of late, however we have now left Thailand, and are in the UK.

Our last two days in Thailand were really good, however were marred by me being very unwell, however some decent antibiotics meant I was improving fast, and could actually get out of the hotel to see things.

We went to the National Museum, which was amazing, there is a group of volunteer women who run tours in all different languages, and we took one of the English tours. This was very informative, and provided great insight into the birth of Thailand, and of the buddist religion. I can definitely recommend doing this trip, and don’t let “helpful” people outside the building try and tell you it’s closed

Friday was our last day in Bangkok, and we went shopping. I was initially after a new cellphone, as they were pretty cheap in Thailand, and my current one was on it’s last legs. The phone I wanted however had sold out all across Thailand, so we went and had a look around a place called Pantip Plaza instead, which is a huge IT mall in the centre of town.

After wandering around this place for a while, it became apparent that prices for macbooks were quite stunningly less than anywhere else, except the USA. We managed to pick up a white 2Ghz macbook for Marie for just on NZ$1500, and she’s loving it. It was amusing to see the nice salespeople (this was an authorised reseller, so quite bling inside) take the laptop and a USB drive, and load office, photoshop and some other slightly dodgy apps onto it for us before we left. Only in Thailand

After that it was off to the airport. Amusingly enough, when we fired up a laptop we found some wifi ssid’s called “AOTInternet” - which is Airport of Thailand. Connecting to these took us to a captive portal login page, but we couldn’t find anywhere in the airport to pay for this service. Amusingly enough, I finally found someone to ask, and she wrote down a username and password with a grin, saying it was actually free. So.. if you’re in suvarnabhumi airport, and need internet, log in with this:

Username: test

Password: test

.. no shit I have no idea how long this will last, but hey, it worked well.