A Familiar Face

On Sunday, Gav and I met up with Wilhelmina. Wills took over my job when I left Tesco. She's in Bangkok visiting another one of her friends, Nicola who also works for Tesco but is based in Thailand. Nicola had been invited to a party to watch the England game, so gav and I tagged along. It was surreal enough to be out in Bangkok with Wilhelmina without getting a chaufer driven car to a party. Then we get to the party and I recognise our host. It was Barrat (for the Tesco people out there, he used to work in the support office for Steve Manders, then Richard Dodd also turned up.) Anyway aside from the game, the highlight for me and wills was the private lift that Barrat and his wife had to their appartment. 2 days before hand gav and I had been filling a bucket with water to flush the loo, and there we were in a luxury apartment with its own private elevator!! Here's a pic of the lift. It was a lovely evening, Gav enjoyed watching the game on a massive screen (bigger than either Ste or Um's) and I enjoyed catching up on all the Tesco gossip.

We spent monday with Wills just hanging around the city, here's us enjoying an ice cream sundae and chocolate fondue. And finally here's us at Nicola's apartment (she has a maid every day!) If I ever go back to Tesco I need to go back as an ex pat somewhere - they live like the rich and famous.

Anyway we're back to basics again now. We had a 13 hour bus journey to get to Seam Reap in Cambodia, 6 hours of it along a pot holed dirt track. The guide book described Cambodia in the rainy season as looking like a giant puddle and that's fairly accuate.

Tomorrow we're visiting Angkor Wat so prepare for some good pictures...