Last night Sophie and I ended up in a really chilled out bar sitting on a balcony overlooking Khao San road which is the backpacker road that we were staying on. We met a group of British tourists who invited us over to their table and we chatted the night away before Sophie and I did the sneaky loo-escape-back-to-our-hostel trick...but last nights sleep certainly made up for our overnight train trip the night before. We had proper beds with proper mattresses! I ...

Okay so last nights sleep wasn't really happening. I could feel the train swaying from my top bunk every time we went over a bridge I could have sworn we were going to fall off. (No railings and about 30 meters above the ground) but eventually the hours passed and my alarm went off at 6am as we were us to arrive at our station not long after. Typically we were two hours behind so we didn't arrive in Ayutthaya until 9am, but this didn't bother us. We put our bags ...