And so, we decided to go on a mini-tour of central Thailand, before returning to collect our visas, and then catching the sleeper train up to Chiang Mai. We caught a third-class train (hard seats but full of friendly locals) up to Lopburi, about 4 hours north of Bangkok. After reading our Lonely Planet properly for the first time, we had learned that this town has a gang of monkeys who live there amongst the temple ruins, and although they cause a fair bit of mo...

Sawaat dii Kaa! Right then, we'd better get the blog up to date...As you know, we arrived safely in Bangkok via Colombo, although Dave says that our five hour visit to Sri Lanka doesn't count as a new country because we didn't leave the airport... Sri Lanka is very nice though, if the airport is anything to go by - we could have picked up a wooden mask, a deep fat fryer and a car stereo all in one airport shop - and we also spent some time going up and down the e...