Tips to travel by.... part one.
1. Choose carefully who you travel with.
Friends can be left behind, family can not.
eg.
A girl we met illustrated this well. Her brother was clearly a drunken moron at 1pm when we first met them. At 7pm, the time of our second meeting, they'd both consumed way to much beer lao, and as they were walking down the street, beer in hand, he smacked the bottle from her hand, smashing into pieces, one of which neatly sliced through her bare foot. It when down hill from here.
We ran into them again at 11pm. Her foot was still bleeding, and hurting badly, but her brother seemed more worried about getting more beer than her pain, and hunger. Finally she decided to catch a tuk tuk home... With te help of the three musketeers (read us, plus a guy from Dublin), she hopped through the oblivious Christmas crowd to the tuk tuk. Now her brother had a brilliant idea... He'll drive the tuk tuk to the hotel! Yes... Good.... He hops into the drivers seat, and declares his intention... With much cursing and pulling he's finally removed, much to his sisters annoyance, as well as the drivers. Oh and do you have any more money for beer he and his mate slur... We pulled away from the curb, with her going "Drive Drive Drive!" Fearing her brother would try and chase the tuk tuk and jump the driver.
And yet she says "He's a good brother".... Yeah good as a boat anchor.
Now the final kicker is that when we finally got her to the Guest House, she confesses that the House owners probably wont be too happy to see her... Given that they'd called the cops on them all this morning...... .
2. Avoid sitting near Gaseous Monks, on long bus trips...
"Burp"
Friends can be left behind, family can not.
eg.
A girl we met illustrated this well. Her brother was clearly a drunken moron at 1pm when we first met them. At 7pm, the time of our second meeting, they'd both consumed way to much beer lao, and as they were walking down the street, beer in hand, he smacked the bottle from her hand, smashing into pieces, one of which neatly sliced through her bare foot. It when down hill from here.
We ran into them again at 11pm. Her foot was still bleeding, and hurting badly, but her brother seemed more worried about getting more beer than her pain, and hunger. Finally she decided to catch a tuk tuk home... With te help of the three musketeers (read us, plus a guy from Dublin), she hopped through the oblivious Christmas crowd to the tuk tuk. Now her brother had a brilliant idea... He'll drive the tuk tuk to the hotel! Yes... Good.... He hops into the drivers seat, and declares his intention... With much cursing and pulling he's finally removed, much to his sisters annoyance, as well as the drivers. Oh and do you have any more money for beer he and his mate slur... We pulled away from the curb, with her going "Drive Drive Drive!" Fearing her brother would try and chase the tuk tuk and jump the driver.
And yet she says "He's a good brother".... Yeah good as a boat anchor.
Now the final kicker is that when we finally got her to the Guest House, she confesses that the House owners probably wont be too happy to see her... Given that they'd called the cops on them all this morning...... .
2. Avoid sitting near Gaseous Monks, on long bus trips...
"Burp"