LESSONS: THINGS WE HAVE LEARNED IN BANGKOK

1. Wherever possible make your own way anywhere-you will get there faster and have more fun...and often for free!

2.Never EVER take your malaria meds on an empty stomach

3. Dont be truthful about how naiive a traveller you are. (First time in Bangkok? No!)

4. Water is best consumed cold, i.e. ten seconds after purchase. It will be hot in thirty.

5. TUK TUK DRIVERS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS

6. Americans are your friends.

7. Khao San Road is where civilisation comes to die

8. It is much hotter after 7pm. No really.

9. Do not put money in your bra ERIN.

10. Pineapple and breakaways will cure illness, but do not constitute a healthy balanced diet.

11. Scratch lesson number nine: pineapple will make your tongue prickle. Ow.

12. Padlocks and money belts are a PAIN IN THE PROVERBIAL.