After 14 hours of a bumpy, squeeky, hold onto something train ride we finally made it to Chiang Mai.It wasn't actually too bad considering, the seats pulled into bunk beds (designedfor small people only - as Dave soon found out!), and you got a curtain surrounding your bed for privacy - well not private enough, when the lights get turned on at 5.30 am and the waitress woman walks up and down the cabin shouting "MORNING!!!". When we eventually surface...

Woke up this morning to another cloudy day in Bangkok, but this time it was raining. Not your piddly little showers that we get at home, this was monsoon rain - pretty cool really! Didn't really do much during the day as we had to check out of our guest house as we are leaving for Chiang Mai tonight. We did however go to the Vietnam embassy to arrange our visas for when we go over there in a couple of weeks. We also got our YHA cards for Australia, saving us abo...

Great start to the morning today...David deleted the last photo's of Koh Chang we hadn't yet put on the computer - that went down well for the first hour. May have even woken a few of the other guests up aswell to our pleasant discussion. In the afternooon we decided to head to Lumphini Park. It's a bit like Hyde Park if anything - a great escape from the city and the fumes. After a brief stroll we went to the snake farm, the second only snake farm in the world...

Had a nice long lie in this morning - needed it after a lot of early mornings! When we eventually surfaced we walked to the train station (just up the road according to David...in the blazing heat and not knowing where your going in a huge foreign city, 'just up the road', is never a good option!). Ok, so we have now got our train tickets booked to Chiang Mai in 2 days - a 2nd class sleeper (you'll find out about this later i'm sure). We then headed back ...

Early start for us this morning as we decided yesterday to head back to Bangkok, in the hope that we can get up to Chiang Mai in the next few days. After a pleasant journey (no Demon baby) back, which included a trip on the Skytrain (like Londons underground but the opposite of being underground) we checked into our new guest house which is in a different part of the city to last time in Siam Square. We are right beside the MBK Centre, which is one of 4 massive...