{"id":21,"date":"2005-05-22T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-05-22T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T12:28:08","slug":"ok-here-we-are-taxis-and-transport-and-shoppin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"OK, here we are, taxis and transport and shoppin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, in Bangkok safe and sound, the keyboards are funny @ the netcafres.. but, the food is great and plentiful, from chicken steaks for 8baht from street vendors to restaurants where it costs $15 to get a great meal.. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s all here.. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>I managed to utilise a num,ber of different transports today, from the airport I caught a taxi, I got ripped 100 baht,  but let it slide, then I got a motorcycle taxi to the main mall (World Trade Centre), it weas a wild ride, it seem that road rules ro stop lights do not apply to these individuals! \ud83d\ude2e anyway, for 120 baht it was still a rip conpared to the skytrain (same journey cost me 35, or $1). So skytrain from now on it is for me! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>My hotel is cool, I got the deluxe room, so for an extra $5 a night I get a window!! haha!!! Overall it&#8217;s not too bad, has al the basic ameneties and I took my screwdriver with me to hide my extra cash INSIDE the appliances&#8230; apperantly the best way to stop your stuff from being looted \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I got some KFC today, hot and spicy really IS hot and spicy over here!! (and small \ud83d\ude10 )<\/p>\n<p>The traffic is bad-ass&#8230; the drivers are all crazy and theres more luxury cars then in Perth! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I met some other people from Melbourne today,and they were pretty friendly, and I&#8217;m picking up the thai language, altho they seem to understand the basic chineese Nicole taught me, as well as English and a little from my Thai phrasebook! \ud83d\ude00 Anyway, I&#8217;m off to dance and explore this amazing city at night!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, in Bangkok safe and sound, the keyboards are funny @ the netcafres.. but, the food is great and plentiful, from chicken steaks for 8baht from street vendors to restaurants where it costs $15 to get a great meal.. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s all here.. \ud83d\ude42 I managed to utilise a num,ber of different transports today, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}