The overnight train last night was a not as nice as the one we took before, and the timing was rubbish as we had to leave mid afternoon. It was also incredibly hot!We arrived in Bangkok at 6.15 this morning, had a shower in the station, it was cold and it didn't make me feel any cleaner, mainly because Bangkok is a really dirty place. My feet are actually black. After leaving our backpacks at the station we got the subway and the skytrain to the boat dock. St...

We flew from Laos to Chiang Mai on the 19th, arrived mid afternoon, got to the hostel and checked in and then went to the station to book out overnight train tickets to go back to Bangkok. There were none available for the day we wanted so we had to stay an extra day (not complaining though!). We had ice cream and a drink and then decided it would be good to book all the trains we needed for the next week so we did that and got a tuk tuk to the night bazzar. Felt...

There is a tourist boat that runs up and down the river in Bangkok so we decided to check it out as it was only 100 baht for the day and you can get on and off as many times as you like. It also allowed us to go to the central post office and send loads of our clothes home, we packed waaaay too much stuff. After doing that we had sweet and sour chicken at a cafe at one of the stop offs and went to Wat Pho, which is apparently the largest and oldest temple in Ba...

We've been in Bangkok for two days now. We arrived on the evening of the 10th. The plane journey was yet again quite a luxury. Hats off to STA for our flights. We were sat next to a lovely old Japanese lady who was trying to feed us oranges and sweets. We had fun trying to fill out her visa card for her!The minute we stepped off the plane it was boiling hot, which meant it was fun trying to lug our backpacks around. Got a taxi from the airport instead of atte...