Asian Update October 18, 2017

I will be on my way to London, and then to Bangkok two weeks from tonight. I will be out of here about Ten -Thirty in the evening, November 01, and in London about seven hours later.
 After a stopover of two and a half hours, I will be onward to Bangkok, in one of the biggest, latest, and newest aircraft flying today. This flight of eleven and a half hours will be in a Thai Airways Jumbo A-380, double-decker, four engine aircraft. If one is interested, just have a google to "Thai Airways A-380 seating plan." While I have flown in about 64...at last count, different aircraft, this will be my first time in the A-380. I get to do the same trip on my return to Ottawa on December 07, although the flight being westward, will be an hour and a half longer from Bangkok to London. The reason for this, for those who have not flown, is the fact that at jet altitude, the winds are always west to east.

With the help of Thai friends on site, I have rented a furnished one bedroom apartment in the Silom district of Bangkok for six weeks. This is at a cost of about seven hundred dollars. I will be in Thailand for about 34 days, and they rent for a month, or two week intervals. It is much cheaper to go the extra week. The cost is about twelve hundred cheaper than hotels for that time in Bangkok, where costs are higher than elsewhere. The unit is completely furnished to Canadian standards...for tourists. If interested, have a google to ,"Golden Living, Silom, Bangkok". I will be going into northern Thailand near the Laotian city of Vientiane, with my Thai friends, and we may spend a few days in that city.
The majority of my time will be in Bangkok and area. 

My Thai friends are making plans for me, and want to show me their rice farms, and related points of interest. I suspect that I will get a lesson or two on how to harvest rice. A trip to a waterpark with the kids will also be on the agenda.

That is about it for now. will plan to do an arrival post from the Golden Living address about 03 November.