Back in Bangkok

Thankfully it isn't terribly hot here at the moment. A nice 25 c or so i'd say. We're in a small hotel just of Khao San rd. Sandra doesn't really care much for this popular backpacker street but i like to watch people there. It is so much fun. And of course i have to show the 'real' backpacker life to Frans. He's the new addition to our crew. He's french so a bit pecular but good company non the less. He's just a bit too warmly dressed for this weather. Anyways, the flights weren't nearly as bad as we'd assumed. And much to our, and especially Sandra' s, dissapointment we were not 'left behind' in Bahrain. We had a very unexperienced lady checking us in at Charles de Gaulle airport. And since our flightplan had changed (to our advantage but done by the airline company) she did everything wrong. It took at least 3 bagtickets before she got the correct one (with help from a supervisor). And we got both boarding passes, the one from Paris to Bahrain and onwards from there to Bangkok. The second one Sandra stowed away for later use. On the plane we found that me and Frans had to get back into our bag since the whole plane was fully booked (and then some we found out later). The french guy that occupied the seat turned out to be much fun so it wasn't so bad. But Frans and me did miss the nice views we could have had. With 2 hours waiting in Bahrain we drank loads of coffee. In the company of the french guy and 2 other french guys with whom he had been on the stand-by list. The plane was that full. While in line for boarding Sandra looked on her boarding pass online to find that it says the 4th of january. And it was the 3rd! Sandra quickly went to talk with one of the ground staff and indeed we were booked for the 4th... They thought she'd be terribly upset of course (she being the only one booked for the 4th) but of course she thought it the best joke ever. And when they informed her that the airline company would provide the hotel she told them not to search to hard for a possibility to get her on that plane. We'd never visited Bahrain before and this seemed such an excellent opportunity.... The only thing they needed to do was to make sure her luggage was not on that plane (as if Sandra would have cared if her backpack had arrived in Bangkok before she did). So we waited while everybody checked in and we had a blast with the ground staff. Unfortunately just before the last people went through the message came through that our luggage was already on the plane. And with the security rules it meant that we had to be on that plane too. Or the whole flight would be cancelled. We were all so dissapointed! We'd already 'adjusted' ourselves to the idea of spending a whole day in Bahrain and having a good look around there. But well, we could hardly refuse to go on that plane and postpone everybody else's holiday.. But deep in our hearts we were definitely thinking about it