Day 5 - With people waking up on the train at about 05:00 and deciding to have conversations at the top of their voices, sleep was some what scarce last night. I reckon about 3 hours, tops. When we got up at about 06:30, we had about an hour left before arriving into Ubon Ratchathani station. Once at the station we wandered out through the station to be met by a really loud tannoy system playing music which we think must have been the Thai national anthem as pe...

Day 4 - 'Decisions decisions'. Another lazy morning waking up to an overcast day in Bangkok, we took breakfast near to the hotel. Not quite sure what to do with the day as we were getting the overnight sleeper train to Ubon Ratchathani at 20:30 so we decided to head for a flower market up river near to the Memorial Bridge. The plan didn't exactly work out as the boat we were on sailed on passed the bridge pier and onto Tha Tien. Not all was lost though as this i...

Day 3 - 'The big sleep'!! After the long journey getting here and then having most of another full day awake - it was always going to happen. Finally managed to get out of the room at midday despite hoping to make it down for breakfast by 10:30am! With breakfast a no goer, we set off from the hotel on the boat and then onto the sky train to visit Jim Thompson's house. Jim was an American who settled in Bangkok in the 20th century. He single handedly reinvented t...

Day 2 - We arrived in Bangkok at 08:00 local time but it felt more like midnight as we hadn't slept for a while so the first mission was to stay awake for the whole day. Off the plane, through immigration with no dramas and we successfully found the correct train to take us to downtown Bangkok. We had to transfer from the local train to the sky train which was a simple exercise. Lovely air conditions trains was great with the backpacks on and one too many layers...