Today was an exercise in patience and acceptance. If you choose to live in Australia and want to go anywhere else it takes time. I left my home at 5.30am and arrived in this hotel in Bangkok at 5.30 pm local time ( 9.30 Canberra time). We waited around at Canberra airport, Sydney airport, put up with inconsiderate people on the airplane, waited in a long queue to get into Thailand and sat in a bus for almost an hour to get to the hotel. All fairly normal.
The most noteworthy happening occurred right at the start. My little (international carry-on size) bag was weighed at 10.4 kg. The check-in chick proceeded to put a ‘Heavy’ label on it with 11kg written on it. In response to my perplexed query she replied that baggage handlers expect small bags to weigh less than 8 kg and that 11kg is too much to lift one-handed. Makes you wonder about the strength of the baggage handlers.
I had dinner (pizza) with some others in the group at an Italian restaurant in the hotel. There will be plenty of time for authentic tastes later , along with the noise and hussle and bustle of people and traffic.
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