A rocky start

A bit of a rocky start to my trip - my traveling partner's (Briony) first flight, to London, was delayed so we almost didn't board our very first flight!
Then, although I had ordered a vegetarian option for my flight, there were no veggie meals, so I asked people if they would like to share, as I didn't want to waste the food. I asked the man sitting beside me if he would like my sausage, which was perhaps not the best way of phrasing the question.
On the other end, in Bangkok, where we stayed overnight to get a connecting flight, the humidity hit me immediately as we waited for a bus shuttle service that never came.
Eventually we got on a bus which said it would take us to the street we needed but it dropped us off in the middle of another lot of buses. We were completely clueless - which was our fault - and so we got completely scammed for our bus ticket into town - paying more than I do in London! We relied on the help of a friendly woman on the bus for what stop to get off at.
The following day we got a taxi to the airport, after getting a Thai massage, which was lovely, but a little painful, with limbs being pulled all over the place. Only when in the taxi did we realize that we were a day behind on ourselves and had missed our connecting flight to Hanoi, Vietnam. Our tour in Vietnam was meant to start that day and we were still in Bangkok. What utter plonkers! But we still managed to get a flight that day and arrived late in the evening before the tour group moved on the next day, Briony with a stonking migraine and me with an eye infection from having scratched the new mosquito bites scattered around my face....phew!