Ranong, Thailand
Sawadee Kap! (hey, it’s the though that counts, not the spelling, pronounciation..)
We are in Ranong in a dirt cheap hotel (2 pounds 42 pence to be precise), having caved in and had to go and give $20 to the Burmese military junta. Terrible, but we had to renew our VISA and here it's a 30min boat trip to the border.
Took the night train down from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. We were expecting the Orient express which it really wasn’t (although someo...