We took another overnight cargo boat from Ko Tau up onto the mainland, this was quality as i slept the entire journey. At 5am we took a gruelling 9 hour coach journey all the way to Bangkok the capital of Thailand. There is one main tourist road in Bangkok and this is Kho San Road. A street full of westerners, stalls, and international brands. As you walk down the road you are regularly ambushed by tuk-tuk drivers, who firstly say tuk-tuk? If you say no they say, ping-pong show? This basically involves a woman putting a ping pong in...well guess the rest!

We spent a week in Bangkok as we had to wait for Ians credit card that he had lost in Malaysia to arrive. Most of this week was spent on the road itself eating mainly Pad Thai from the street stalls. We went out a lot, running into Tania again and going out with her.

One of the days we did spend seeing the sights and some of the temples and it was on this little excursion that we ran into a professer at the local university and randomly started speaking to him. He informed us that we were in luck, one of the finest suit makers in Thailand were holding a promotion all week, the promotion was that westerners were allowed to come and get suits fitted at the retailers. Usually the store was only available to Thai people, so we saw our oppertunity and went for it. We each spent 300 pounds on two armani suits that anywhere else would have cost 2000. Chuffed as we were with our kick-ass suits we didn't go out for a few days as we felt pretty poor!

Our last night out in Bangkok was a pretty eventful one, after meeting up a couple of guys and girls we all decided that we would give into the urge we'd resisted all week and go to a ping-pong show! This turned out to not only to be a ping pong show, but also a darts show and a pepsi drinking show! Later we went back to Ko San Road, where we all managed to get seperated. We had agreed that we would be going to a club called Lucifer earlier that evening so i decided i would go there and hopefully meet everyone there. So i jumped in a tuk tuk and told him to go to Lucifer. Twenty minutes later he dropped me off and told me the bar infront of me was Lucifer, i walked in and got a beer. After I sat down and then finally realised that this was not a club, i looked up and there were about 40 asian women infront of me all in lingerie...and then it clicked, holy s*** im in a brothel! So i got up and went to the door, but they'd locked it with chains and padlock behind me. Starting to panic i went through the back door and jumped out the fire exit, very close call! After lipping off at my tuk tuk driver i got him to take me to the actual Lucifer, where naturally none of my friends were! After clubbing a little bit I called it a night and came home to find Jack and Ian asleep in their beds, w***ers!

The last few nights consisted of Jack having the s***s and a high temperature, but we left Bangkok anyway to our next destination Chiang-Mai. On the way up to the North of Thailand we stopped Ayutthaya, the area of an ancient city 1500 years old. Jack stayed and slept at the station whereas Ian, Harmon(a German 39 year old airline pilot we met in the station) and I rented some bikes and went to explore the city. This turned out to be a very cool day where as usual we ate the cheapest food possible, but unfortunatly this time it was a chicken mush consisting of liver, stomach, brain and kidney! yum yum. At the end of the day we cycled back to see the sun set over the ancient ruins, this was pretty special.

A couple of hours later we said our goodbyes to Harmen as we got on our train that we took third class to Chiang Mai. Third class was pretty painful, it involved wooden seats at right angles and no air con; 13 hours of this was not nice at all!