After a very good night's sleep in our massive bed we went down to the restaurant for our free breakfast - another rarity for us! We'd read some really good reviews about the breakfast here and soon saw why. We were handed a menu with 6 different breakfast options - I went for the 'light European' breakfast of fresh fruit, yoghurt, croissant, butter and Laos jam, while Dave went for the 'American' of fried egg, bacon beans and toast (isn't that a full English n...

Woke up on the sleeper train again today after another less-than-perfect night's sleep - still much better than the overnight buses though! We arrived at Nong Khai, close to the border, at about 8:30am, and saw that the international train to Laos was leaving at 9am. We quickly bought our tickets for the 15 minute train ride - only 20 baht each! Then it was through passport control on the station platform to be stamped out of Thailand and onto the train in 3rd ...

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 w...

After another night of broken sleep on the train, we arrived back at Cozy at about 8am just as the receptionist was opening the doors! We didn't have to wait too long before we could get into our room and have a much needed shower! Laura and I needed to get a few things from MBK shopping centre, so after a short rest we were off to find a taxi, leaving Chris behind at the hotel to get his stuff sorted for his journey home tomorrow. We managed to get a taxi str...

We checked out of the guesthouse this morning and got picked up at 11am for our transfer to Surat Thani where we would get the sleeper train tonight back to Bangkok for the third and final time! We were picked up on time and, after collecting other people from Aonang, were dropped off at the bus station in Krabi. Our next bus was leaving an hour later so we sat and ate some sandwiches while we waited (these places always sell ham and cheese sandwiches - they m...