Day 73 - Bangkok  During the night the electricity went off. Usually it doesn't take long to come on but this time it never did, so we couldn't sleep without the fan on it was way too hot! So when the alarm went off at 5 we were knackered. We also had to have showers and get all our stuff together using a torch. We got on the bus which drove us to the Thai border, where we had to take all our bags and walk across. It was long and hot! We got crammed in a mini v...

Day 20 - Bangkok Today our plan was to go to Siam square - a huge shopping area which has attached an aquarium and a wax works museum and lots of other things - if Michael was feeling up to it. We woke up and he felt absolutely fine so we decided to go ahead with it. So we got up, went for lunch, and decided to go to the Internet before we left.'we were planning to get the night bus to Chiang Mai later so wanted to check times and book somewhere to stay. So we t...

Day 19 - Bangkok When we got up michael was feeling ill again so he had a lie in hoping it would make him feel better. We got up and had lunch and he said he felt fine, so we flagged a taxi to go and visit some temples. We went to Wat Pho, which is where the reclining Buddha is. We had heard it was big, but it was absolutely huge! It's a gold statue of Buddha lying down and it's size is pretty impressive. We started walking around the rest of the temple and Mich...

Day 18 - Bangkok We finally arrived in Bangkok about 3pm local time. After spending ages trying to get through immigration we taxi to our hotel. We started heading out for a wander and some lunch and then we both got sick, so went straight back to the room - think we were dehydrated. We fell asleep and woke up soon after feeling much better. So we went and had some dinner and buckets of whiskey on khao san road. It was a great night. On the way home we bought so...