10 November 2008

Bangkok Airport

We left Ko Tao for Bangkok and while there we picked up a guide to India and a few toiletries. We spent the night off Ko San Rd with a plan to head early to the airport.
We got to Bangkok Airport at about 7.30am and Terry stayed with the bags and I wandered along the counters, quickly realising that most of them were closed as it was a Sunday.
I eventually found an open Jet Airways desk that was able to give us a flight to Kolkata, (Calcutta) for less than 370 Euros. It was, however, leaving in one hour and ten minutes time. We went to the check in desk, where there was a chaos of Indian men who were not only checking in their luggage but also sound systems, women’s shoes, flat screen TV’s and dogs. We then went to the bureau de change but they had no rupees so we changed our few baht into dollars. Then we stopped and picked something take away for breakfast. It was not until we were on the plane that we realized that we were flying first class!
It was really nice, a cold towel on arrival, good food on real crockery and an entertainment system. We could even have had champagne if we wanted. However we decided that it was way too early and that not even the queen would be drinking that early.
The flight was delayed and we arrived about an hour late to Kolkata. But alas the flight was so short and the friendly captain kept giving us reports so we didn’t get to finish our movies. So if anyone knows how Get Smart (Ter) or Indiana Jones 4 (Siobhan) ends leave us a comment.

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