Bangkok to home

Tuesday 30th March

Just after we got back to the hotel last night there was a terrific thunderstorm. If we had been 10 minutes later we would have got soaked!

As we reached the bus stop this morning, a taxi pulled up. The driver said he would take us to the airport for the same cost as the bus ( 300 baht - £6), so instead of a bus ride, we had a comfortable and much quicker car.

The airport is very modern, but all the acres of retailing seem to be run by the same organisation ( probably the government) although under different names.

The give-away is that the prices are all uniform, and mis-spellings are consistent across what appear to be different shops.

The flight was smooth and cloudless skies in the first part of the journey allowed us views of snow capped mountains towards the Himalayas, and desert landforms stretching from Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea.

Later it was cloudy, but we got a fine view of London at sunset. After taking the RailAir coach back to Reading, we took a taxi from the station and got home around 9:30pm.