), a lovely 3 weeks break starting off with a couple of nights in Dubai, then 2 weeks Pattaya and finishing with 4 nights in Bangkok, but no Cambodia 
. Dubai, i feel like I've ticked the box and no need to go back, we did what i wanted by going up to the 148th floor at the Burj Khalifa ( glad i paid the extra when we booked to do the 148th and not just the 125th), not the easiest place to take pictures, everything had to be done through glass windows and the haze didn't help. We also made use of the Metro and ended up at The Atlantis Hotel on The Palm.
check out the shadow
The Atlantis
We then moved on to Pattaya Thailand, having been before we knew what we was in for, no flash beaches or stunning islands but we picked a nice hotel out of the way and for about 80p we could get into Pattaya on a Baht Bus, one reason for picking Pattaya was that i wanted to do Angkor Wat Temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia by road, ( every tour company we asked would only do it in groups of at least 4 ). The hotel was only a few hundred yards from a place called The Sanctuary of Truth, so we had a walk around it one afternoon
The whole temple is carved out of wood inside and out
. Then it was on to Bangkok, 20hrs a day rush hr traffic, tuk tuk's that charge you £2 per hr and you'd be lucky to do a mile
, taxi motorbikes that will take to the pavement to gain some distance. The deal was she could have her days shopping ( I'm talking 7 floors of shops and thats in just one of many shopping centres, another had Rolls Royces, BMW, Aston Martins ect ect for sale in it) as long as we took a trip to the River Kwai, we went 13yrs ago and i fancied going again.
It was a nice day out, 3hrs travel to the river where you board a long tail speed boat ( picture 2), that takes you down to the bridge, then on to a museum about the Death Railway, then back on the bus for another hr to a restaurant that is out in the sticks before catching the train back to the bridge before heading back to Bangkok and its traffic that never moves, sitting here now i wish id seen about doing a 2 day trip and going further to Burma and seeing Hellfire Pass.
So that brings me to shopping in Bangkok floor 1 - 2 - 3 -4 then 5
, wall to wall camera shops, do i need a new one NO but such a saving compared to the UK, so should i upgrade my dslr. So i decided to do a little bit of research before parting with cash, 
well a night of hotel wifi = a lot of talk of Grey Imports ( they say serial number problems means no firmware updates and Thai only warrant). So we move on to Bangkok International Airport and a bit of Duty Free "King Power", it was love at first sight
Olympus OMD EM1 + 12-40 pro lens, 58000bhts thats about £400 cheaper than uk, as i turned to walk out with should i shouldn't i going through my head this lady says its on offer at 39000 bhts, so as i was walking away the phone came out, a quick tap on the calculator then it was about turn and back in, by this time there was a battery hand grip, spare battery, 2 memory cards and a worldwide warranty on the counter so I am now the proud owner of a OMD EM1, just have to sell my D300 and gear now 
Firmware updated, registered it on Olympus website 2yr warranty on body 2.5yr on lens
). Even so as we was only there for 2 nights i feel like I've ticked that box no need to go back, its impressive and like MD said very clean and organized, but i felt it was just sea- beach- tall/taller buildings - shopping malls and expensive. 
