Seeing the world...

I must look like such a backpacker (i think the backpack gives it away). As I walked out of 76 Foyle Road, a tall round black man in a bright stripey shirt called "Going to see the world?" I said yes, he wished me good luck in a low loping voice, like Marcellus Wallace.
Liv and I are writing from a great little caf้ in NW Bangkok. There are a bunch of Thai women doing aerobics across the road from us which is hilarious and also looks extremely hot. It is very hot here, Liv was very apprehensive about cold showers but they are just what we need. We just had "drunken" noodles (loads of chilli :O ) with lizards scuttling across the wall next to us. I'm burning on the outside also from all the DEET insect repellant...
Thailand is really colourful, the aerobics women are wearing every shade of neon.
Lauda air were interesting, the sun rose as we were in the air giving a fatastic light display and then melt-your-face sunlight to wake everyone on the plane.
We flew over an amazing desert (somewhere in east Pakistan, northwest India). The sun was so strong the dunes almost looked in black and white. They towered over dust speck houses and green scribble rivers.
We are staying on the Khao-san road, which is extremely touristy, but we got to the airport and didn't know anywhere else. Liv heard of it in "the Beach" (a novel/film). We met a girl who was wearing a top made of the same material as my shirt (the one Liv made) who recommended us a guest house.
We went out in the evening for drinks in this great outdoor bar, a bit of a haven from the insomniac bustle of Khao-san and had a fun argument about what art was (fairly typical) and bashed our heads on the wooden sun-shades (designed for shorter Thai people).
This evening we walked through a market alongside a canal and saw all sorts of vegetables, inside out animals and even toads and eels in big tubs. The light through the sunshades (all different colours) made it gorgeous to walk along, but really smelly.