Bangkok knows how to produce rain!

We woke up this morning to the sound of roaring thunderstorms and a waterfall of rain that sounded like stones being chucked at the building. The monsoon season has definitely arrived in Thailand! Because of the weather we decided to use the morning to plan the next part of our journey and after much consideration we have booked a flight down to a south eastern island called Koh Samui. The weather looks similar to here so we are just going to go anyway and hope for the best. We've found a nice beach side hostel to stay in so fingers crossed we get some sunshine. We also asked the reception to print out our proxy vote application forms. It's unlikely to reach the UK in time for us to be able to vote but at least we can say we tried. Unfortunately she spent the next two hours trying to sort the printer to make it work. We decided to give up and try somewhere else, maybe another hostel but then all of sudden with that idea it worked! We planned to therefore head to a post office to send our forms and then to an art exhibition called Art in Paradise. We headed to the main road and tried to find a taxi. Taxis are proving to be so much cheaper than tuktuks as long as they will use their meter. Some out right said no to the meter so we swiftly called another one in and it took at least speaking to 4 guys and several maps and addresses for one to understand where the post office is. Finally we were on our way and our journey of 20 minutes cost less than £2. We sent off the forms with tracked service to hope this speeds it up. We then began trying to get a taxi to take us to an exhibition called Art in Paradise but it was either they didn't know where it was, didn't want to use the meter or just decided it's not worth their time. We were right by a sky train station so after around 8 taxi attempts we gave up and went on the train and then the tube which wasn't that expensive either. We struggled to find the exhibition from the station but eventually found the mall it was in. After a quick Starbucks pick me up we headed there. It was so amazing! Everything was interactive 3D effect art which you pose in for photographs or cool illusions and trick of the eye pictures. So so so annoyingly all the research had meant my phone with the best camera had 15% battery and I didn't even think to check before we left. With that in mind we raced round and did all the cool ones we wanted to before it sadly died. Nick's phone doesn't have a great camera but we still took some on his after as well. We throughly enjoyed posing for the photos and seeing how great the results came out. Afterwards we managed to find a taxi that took us all the way back to our hostel area for super cheap on the meter. We went to a burger restuarant we saw the night before for tea and ended up after eating speaking to the owner for about an hour. He's 24 and just opened 2 weeks ago so wanted some advise and tips on the menu, the look and design of it as well as other dishes and avenues he could take the restuarant in. One of the biggest flaws we pointed out was he had written that you get free side dishes with a burger not a single dish! He instantly was so grateful that we'd noticed that. We talked about burger places in the UK and have added him on Facebook and sent him lots of links to UK menus for ideas. We've told him any help he needs even if it's just spelling and grammar to email us and let us know. He was so lovely and it was great to see him taking his love of cooking and giving it a real go. His food was also amazing so he has a good thing going here. He offered us 10% discount as a thankful but of course we refused and reassured him we are helping him because we want to and not for free food. It's his first day off tomorrow so sadly no second visit tomorrow before we leave but we are pleased we had to opportunity to help him out.Read more