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Phitsanulok, Thailand
Bangkok had been an experience but i wasn't sad to leave. As the rickety old train slowed pulled away, wobbling on its uneven tracks, we made our way out of the slums that surround the city; past washing lines of smoke blackened clothes and tatty cats sprawled across tin rooves into the open spaces of rice fields. The hot air filled the carriages and that smell which comes with warm fresh air gradually replaced that of the pollution. An hour or so later the sun c...