So to summarise Bangkok: Bangkok Bummers:1 - the corrupt tourist information2 - silly taxi system3 - spitting4 - noise and traffic5 - no ATM at the brand new airport so if you want to eat you must pay Credit card fee! Bangkok Bizarres:1 - everyone wears yellow tshirt on monday to celebrate the King2 - everyone wears blue tshirt on friday to celebrate the queen3 - Mel means cat4 - wearing PJs in the street After Alexa missed her flight out of Bangkok because of...

An Epic Tale of Tummies and Transport Mel woke in the middle of the night, completed overheating and suffering from d and v so she spent the night alternating between the shower and the toilet. Thankfully in Laos these were in the same room so it is very easy to have both simultanously. This of course came at the time when we had 30 hours of bus journey to complete over the next few days.Step 1 - get a bus with a toiletThis would have made the journey slightly be...

So after quite a fun journey on the sleeper train - with very clever seat/bed formations - we arrived at 515am in Bangkok. Bangkok is the smelliest, dirtiest, most manic place I have ever been in. Some of the people are also horrible. We have been shouted at by travel agents for shopping around and told "you should not compare prices - do you do that when you go out for dinner" when we answered yes they got a little angry! But we needed to shop aroun...