Ayutthaya - the ancient capital of Thailand. You can't swing a rat without hitting a Buddhist Wat. Unfortunately, the journey to Ayutthaya was only possible in a 3rd class train. We were worried but it turned out the train wasn't too bad; we've been on worse British trains. Anyway the 2 hour journey only cost us 25p. We arrived at Ayutthaya train station and we were completely lost, luckily a tuk tuk driver came to our rescue and said he would take us anywhere ...

It was Thursday and Katie was feeling slightly rough after last night. We couldn't face another curry for breakfast so Aidan indulged in an 'American Breakfast', which sounded impressive but was actually just egg on toast. We had a good day of sightseeing - caught a river boat down to the central business district of Bangkok then the sky train to Siam square. This is the trendy hangout for the young Thais, we felt right at home. Later in the day we found ourse...

On our first full day in Asia we were pretty lazy. Aidan woke up at 5.30 am and decided this was the time to get up (Katie's still whinging about this). Breakfast consisted of chicken and bamboo curry (50p) with a fried egg on top - because after all it was breakfast time. This was too much for one morning and we had a nap back at the hotel. In the afternoon we wondered around Bangkok. Katie bought a thai style pink skirt and tried her hand at bartering. We mana...

It only took 3 days to go from loving Bangkok to wanting to escape fast. The taxi from the airport had a sticker saying 'welcome foreigners' but the driver got lost and dumped us near Khao San Road. It was only a 5 minute walk to the hotel. Our first experience was of Bangkok was amazing, so many sights, sounds and smells. We went to a restaurant and we both had thai green curry (what else) and the local thai beer. The highlight of the meal was a rat running bet...