Well the Family,
Arrived in The NZ today after the time spent in Thailand, What a country!! Confusing, Intriging, Interseting, offensive,unmissable, attractive and obtrusive, all in the same footstep,and that's only one step. But ya gotta love it, it's too different to everything I've ever known not to love every second of it. So in your face and you know it's there..I've never meet so many teachers in my life!! Everyone is a teacher, or so they clame.
Went to see loads in the time I was there, Dave, you gave me a spot on 'things to do list'..got to do the lot bar Chinatown, Wat Po (with proper Thai massage, too good, I walked out about 3 feet taller! Really amazing!), Grand Palace, Canals, Thai Boxing and a day watchin Khao San in action, Oh, the river too..all soo much in 4 days...
Wat Po and the Grand Palace are, well, outstanding..I've never seen such ornart decoration on such a grand scale or any scale, really, it's so delicate and perfect.The gardins outside the grand palace are so perfect, it's kinda not real, the kind of stuff you see in books, but think could never be real, they are! People sized Bonzi trees, they are perfect! Gutteded I had no camers for it, and Ois was feelin a bit tourisey to take pics, so Bangkok has kinda gone unrecorded..Bah, but the memories, well, I could go on...
On the canels, the poverty is kinda hard to understand, but after a while in Bangkok that's just the way it is , a poor country! Thai boxin was mad as chips, There was a hugh thunder storm that night, it chucked it down at 6pm every night, but that night the thunder was right over head, it made me properly jump at on point, and I was bootin it over to the boxin in a tuk tuk..it was amazing!! the boxing was under a tin roof and the noise was quality, let alone the noise of the crown!!
The NZ chaptre has just started, Lions first match tomorrow. I'll keep ya up to date on the 'Stuff' goin on... peace and love......Neill..xxxx
