Day 8 .. 5th dec Today is a traveling day.
We wave goodbye to Bangkok... After such a late night was no easy task. We were collected by a small coach and travelled for all of five minutes before being off loaded and reloaded back into our more normal mode of transport for longer journeys... A Toyota minivan. ( a minibus in English ) There pretty modern and pimped right up by the owners... Tinted windows, full body kits, alloy wheels, brembo brakes the works....
From here we head North to " uttaya " for the next two nights.

I'm sorry to leave Bangkok behind so quickly... We haven't seen anything like enough of the place.. But I'm not sure Shiree agrees...
We are both flat out knackered so the bus trip is a well needed, enforced rest period and we both dozz....
Whilst in the bus we become aware that parts of the journey look pretty familiar to our last trip... The temple lined old capital we visited two days ago and when we stop in the same carpark as before we are not sure if there's been some mix up.... we assume as the minivan is full that some people must be getting dropped off here and we continue on to your final destination, so it comes with some surprise when the van door is pulled open and we are all ushered out into a noisy mix of Thai people all pointing and almost shouting between themselves.. We were then grouped together with other people and instructed to get back into the van... 50% of me is pleased for getting into the van as it implies we travel on further, 50% wondered if it's even the correct van.
As it turns out the van was traveling on further, and we should of been in it... But after 10 mins it stops again, outside our hostel " Bann Eve " which totally throws us... We were expecting a much longer trip... To another city ! but Hay-Ho... We don't speak the language so can only assume the shouting remedied something...
The hostel is lovely, it's located on a normal Thai residential road and has a huge two tear stilted building to the front of the plot as a communal area and bar with the sleeping area in a separate building behind. The ground floor of the communal area is concrete and has two 25ft long 3ft wide tables cut lengthways from a tree truck with stools cut from smaller upright tree trunks, there are four huge vertical tree trucks in the corners set into the concrete floor which have the upper level built on top of them with a corner stair case cut from naturally curved branches cut in half.
The whole upper floor is a chill out area with hammocks swaying in the breeze from the roof structure, a couple of guitars lay against a bookcase in the corner and that's about it...
We spent the vast majority of the day in these hammocks simply taking in the slower, more tranquil pace of life here, watching more backpackers arrive and others setting off on the next leg of there journeys...
The wifi reaches the hammocks so you only have to move when the battery dies....
Our rooms our lovely and the inactivity of the day so far has sent us over the edge so before we know it we're back in our room and fast asleep... Alarm set for lunch time....
Well.......
As it turns out we were lunch... For in our room a hundred thousand mosquitoes had together happily sucked us almost dry of blood whilst we slept... But vengeance will be mine...
Watch out mosquitoes... For I'm now watching you.....

After squatting as many as I can we head off for some food, happy that the mosquito population in our room had taken a serious enough dent to keep them at bay for now...but I'm a long way from finished with them yet..... This afternoon will involve a trip to the shop to buy a mosquito filling spray and some candles.
Dinner was lovely, and eaten on the big wood tables. Here we got speaking to another English couple and a Portuguese couple who had spent the day together and they were both lovely.. We sat for hours just chatting and had a really nice night, hear we learnt how we ended up staying back in this town again having only been here two days ago... On our first trip here it was called Ayutthaya and on the paperwork for this two day stay it's called uttaya but its definatly the same place...
We had booked the day tour with one tour agent and the over night stay with a tour company that we've now booked everything with until we cross into Vietnam. The double trip to Ayutthaya occurred because one tour agent had spelt the name correctly and one had abriveated the name, so we thought they were different places..
Although it wasn't intentional it'll give us some nice down time.

Off to hunt now... Then to sleep.