Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
We had our alarm set for 4:45 so we could say goodbye to Chris who was getting a taxi to the airport at 5am. However, we were woken up a little earlier by Chris knocking on our door to say he'd locked himself out of his room after going for a shower. There's noone on the reception desk from 8pm to 8am, he didn't have his key, and his plane was leaving at 8:30…uh oh! There wasn't much we could do, although we tried picking the lock, trying to force open the window, and I searched the internet and the hotel website. In the end, Chris, dressed only in a towel and one of Dave's tshirts, banged on the door next to reception and miraculously someone answered and gave him a spare key! He eventually left in his taxi only 15 minutes late - he's one lucky man!
We went back to bed for a few hours before packing and checking out ourselves at 12pm. We left our bags in the storage room and headed out for our last day in Bangkok. Number 1 on our list of things to do was to take some photos of the Memorial bridge as we'd been informed by Tosh that, just like Sydney Harbour Bridge, it was build by Dorman Long of Middlesbrough! We walked to the ferry stop, stopping for some street food and a McDonald's frozen coke (best invention ever!) as it was VERY hot, and took the ferry upriver to the bridge where we took photos and looked for anything that might mention Middlesbrough. We did find some plaques at the end of the bridge but it was all written in Thai, so it could have said anything!
Next stop was MBK again for some food and air con! After browsing around the market stalls we went in search of some cheap food and found another food court directly above the international food court that we went to before. This one was much cheaper and seemed to be popular with Thais (the other is more expensive and aimed at tourists). We both had Singapore noodles which were half the price of downstairs and we got a free bowl of soup with it too - bargain!
We went back to the hotel to kill the last few hours before going to the train station. We uploaded some photos and watched an episode of Boardwalk Empire on the laptop (we're really getting into it!). Then it was time to say goodbye to Cozy Bangkok Place for the last time, as we headed to the station for our sleeper train to Laos.
The train takes you to Nong Khai on the Thai side of the border, then you get stamped out of Thailand, take a 15 minute train over the border and get your Laos visas. Sounds simple enough - let's see if it actually is as simple in practice…
- comments