Wednesday 19th August 5am alarm goes off and we made our way, sleepily, to the train towards the Thai-Cambodia border. We’d avoided the cheap bus because of scams and cons being rife (remember those words). The train journey was crazy; most stops weren’t stations, just a place where the train stops on the tracks and people emerge from nearby shacks and climb aboard. It got progressively busier as we made our way through the Bangkok suburbs and slums, and the...

Wednesday 19th August 5am alarm goes off and we made our way, sleepily, to the train towards the Thai-Cambodia border. We’d avoided the cheap bus because of scams and cons being rife (remember those words). The train journey was crazy; most stops weren’t stations, just a place where the train stops on the tracks and people emerge from nearby shacks and climb aboard. It got progressively busier as we made our way through the Bangkok suburbs and slums, and the...