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Paris, France

It begins with a flight from Colognia, Germany to Paris, France; with another friend of Costa Rica. That is my country, I´m just in Germany for a year, doing voluntary work, witch is a fuck up job!! but anyways, my story is another, you see, this trip happen during the easter vacations; this germans give 2 weeks just for that, and they eat a lot of cake during the holly-day....but as i was saying, we arrived in France around 8 at night, and we had to get to my cousins apartment; wish sexual interests must be wonder; we have to take trains and the Metro in Paris witch for a person that has never being in that city is totally over coming....And this "Parisins" or what ever they are call, they hate speaking Spanish and they don´t speak English!! And if you do, they just hate you for that! We get to the apartment, after a lot of searching on the wrong direction...and the code my cousin gave me to enter the place is wrong!!!!! It does´nt WORK!! and it´s already 11pm, and we are all alone. So we get to this pay-phone and the stupid machine only speaks French, witch I find totally idiotic cos Paris is a touristic town. We finally make contact with my cousin and what happens: " Are you stupid or what???!!!! How difficult is to dial the numbers on the screen??" .....very difficult when are the wrong set of numbers!!! We were never going to be able to get in, but at the end we got to sleep in a warm bed.

Bangkok, Thailand

Well it's my first night 'on the road' and just thought i'd check in and say hello, after the whirlwind of the last few weeks since i left work and I am ok.

I had a lovely night with Kylie in Singapore last night and this morning - albeit brief and then i flew to Bangkok this afternoon. I am staying at a cool little hostel - not what i imagined a hostel would be like at all. See attached if you can be bothered! http://www.lubd.com

I am in a 6 girl dorm and there was one girl in there already, Carine from the Netherlands. It coincidently is the first day of her trip too an d we are both heading to Siem Reap in Cambodia tomorrow.

Bangkok is chaotic and v.hot but just like any other Asian big city. I can't believe i have never been here. I am only here for one night as I join my group trip to Cambodia tomorrow night - 3 countries in 4 days is a little hectic but it will slow down after that!

I already feel like i have learnt so much - the first being that things are never as bad as you think they are going to be, banana's are going to become my staple diet, allow double the time you think things will take and DON'T overpack!

I have also been thinking about travelling on your own, it's a bit like going to a party on your own - you dread it - but as soon as you get there it's cool.

written by

westwood on March 14, 2009 from Bangkok, Thailand

from the travel blog: 2009 Adventures

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