HOTYOT goes on Honeymoon, Singapore and Thailand 2002

By this stage I thought it was time to grow up a bit, meet a nice lady plate, settle down, and make some little motorbike plates. Rob & Christina kindly took me to Thailand on their honeymoon, but unfortunately the plates over there were all attached to crazy Tuk Tuks, and 100cc scootors carrying families of 4, 2 TV's and the village cow. All a bit too cultural for an Aussie plate like myself...

So, no little lady plate to bring home, but, the plate was entering into negotiations with the staff at a classy little place in Pat Pong road in Bangkok, wanted to go in for a quick photo with the girls, would have been exciting, with a menu on the door like this "Pussy use chopstick", "Pussy peel banana", "Pussy with ping pong balls" (always my favourite) and the like, maybe someone else has better negotiation skills than me...

	We started in Singapore, Pudsy, heres something for you to dream about, good for getting speeding tickets in this baby...
	What Honeymoon would be complete without a visit to the Colonel, in fact, what day could be complete without a Colonel stop...
	This one taken from a distance, the nice man with the 3ft long machette wasn't wanting to hold me, im not sure why he got so dressed up then. So, this from a more discrete distance.
	One Night In Bangkok, well, in fact 3 or 4 or more. First night, Christina choose a very lovely 5 star hotel, next night, Rob choose a back packers fleet pit down by the river in Banglapet. Needing to save up a bit of money for a new gennaker... This is part of the Golden Palace, King Rama IV's place from memory. Dr Seuess had a bit to do with the tree pruning in this garden.
	Markets, and bartering, good for the nerves, this nice little man selling Christina lots of silk.
	This might be a bit more realistic for you Pudsy, definitely a lot of fun on the golf course..., and comes with in-bred immunity from all known western traffic laws.
	They wouldn't let us in to take a photo, which probably couldn't have gone on the website anyway, not when you look at the menu... 1. Pussy Ping Pong 2. Pussy Shoot Balloon 3. Pussy Smoke Cigarette 4. Pussy Open the Bottle 5. Pussy Chopstick 6. Pussy Shoot Banana ... Very clever cats they have in Thailand.
	Can't trust those sneaky Burmese, this is Ayutthaya, once capital of Thiland, about 1.5 hours north of Bankok. A few years of war, canons and big elephants made the place a little less habitable.
	Your accomodation in Thailand comes with in-built attractions, in addition to Air Conditioning, and Beer, you should make sure your place comes with a curious monkey. This is the Chang Mai "White House", not to be confused with the Queen Street "White House" and those ladys that turned up on the stag night yacht with the sprayed on pant's, but thanks Grant...
	We kindly refer to this as "Grumpy Elephant Boy", never one to smile, but always ready to bonk his elephant on the head with a length of Bamboo was our man. Reluctantly we got a photo of him, and didnt have to pay any extra bhat.
	A quick flight from the North to the South brought us to Ko Sumai, which is a lovely little island, great for whizzing around on scooters, and doing shit all. This is a rock formation at the South of the Island, it is part of a pair, the other one is called "Man Rock", and looks remarkable like a 6ft high Penis...
	In the hills high above and in the centre of Koh Samui, turn right about 100m before the grumpy guard at the gate of the military communications station with the big arse machette. This is a little garden thingy carefully constructed over many years by a Thai man, quite impressive.