Here we are then. Bangkok. We arrived this morning about 9am (2am UK time) and have made our way to our new hostel where we have a deluxe room. Oooooh.

Deluxe. Seemingly the Thai word for ‘worst room in the house’. Nah, it’s not that bad. We have air con, which is nice as the room is smaller than Harry Potter’s under stairs closet. We also have a tv with a teasing red standby light on it. However it is also impossible to turn on. And the WiFi is non existent. So although I am typing this up in our room, I will have to post it when we go out for dinner somewhere.

So I will start with the train. We ate quite a bit before getting on as we remembered how awful the food was on there and how hungry we were throughout the night. We actually found a place next to the station that was so cheap we would have saved money getting a taxi there everyday and ordering the entire menu. You live and learn though.

The train was at 5:30pm and had no air con. Something we (I) thought we could deal with, with no fuss at all. The second we stepped foot on the train it was like a furnace. We would have been cooler if we’d spent the night being breathed on by a fully grown Dragon fresh from a local chilli eating contest.

Soph was not a happy bunny. The train had its windows open which I thought was great. It would be like an old western movie where the on the run cowboy could hang out the train before jumping on his getaway horse. Soph of course was worried about two things.

1. An influx of moths
2. Being hijacked by Thai gangsters.

The train to Chiang Mai consisted of a double bed and a single above. So we stayed in the double together. This one was simply two singles on top of each other. But to calm Soph’s fears of someone jumping through the window, we stayed together on the bottom single. Thankfully we also discovered we could drag down a grate shutter over the window so we could keep the cool air coming in but stop the bugs. It didn’t stop the bugs.

Soph fell asleep about 9pm and pretty much stayed that way until morning. I stayed up pretending I was trying to collect stars for my camp mates on I’m a Celebrity. Attempting to make it through night in a single bed while being attacked by a trillion bugs who managed to skip through the grate. We’ll all eat well tonight.

Arriving at Bangkok, Soph was in a bad way. Sick, tummy ache, tiredness. Everything you don’t want when taking on this city. We decided to walk to near by China Town for something to eat and a sit down. Unfortunately there was  nowhere but a Starbucks we found right over the far side of the street. We sat, grabbed a map and tried to work out the best way to get to our hostel.

Obviously with Soph’s current condition the best thing to do was grab a taxi. So therefore, being the caring and sympathetic boyfriend I am….I suggested we walk.

It was pretty much the entire length of the city. Even a Tuk Tuk driver would have had to make a pit stop to refuel if he’d taken us the distance. It didn’t help that I didn’t really know  the way. After almost 2 hours of walking however we have found it. And saved ourselves about £2 doing it. So totally worth it, you know.

Soph has now fallen asleep again. I do feel quite bad as I have dragged her through the whole of Bangkok when she could barely stand up anyway. Yet now at least we know where everything is.

Tonight we will pop out and get some food. Tomorrow we had plans to go see this town call Lonburi or Lopburi…something like that. Anyway the names not important. It’s a town over run by monkeys. Bloody real life MONKEYS! We’ll see how Soph’s feeling in the morning.

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