- Adam: Show me where this is, please.
- local: In a Thai, she points in the direction he has driven from.
- Adam: Is it not this way?
- local: She confirms that the village is back the way he came.
- local: Another local reads out the address on the scrap of paper, adding to Adam's frustration.
- Adam: Can anyone here, speak English?
- Old Man in Bangkok: You think good, speak good, do good, happiness come. You think no good, speak no good, do no good, problem come.
- [mixing drink]
- Old Man in Bangkok: Chok dee, good luck for you.
- Adam: [writing in diary] Amazing Thailand, 6,000 miles. Another continent, another culture, another planet. Great feeling to be leaving England behind. Don't know what to expect, but hoping for something new.
- Adam: Thailand was Kate's idea to develop our relationship. But driving from the airport, Bangkok didn't quite seem what we'd expected. Somehow I'd imagined something less concrete. Less western.