We are staying at the guesthouse 'Vitoon' in Old Sukhothai. I mentioned in the last blog that the facilities are a bit sparse. The bed is really hard and although we managed to change rooms after the first two nights, the new bed is not much softer. It's not that it's a particularly dirty place, just very basic. This has led us to dub it the guesthouse 'Spitoon'! The 'Loy Krathong' festival was still running, a three day extravaganza, and we arrived with two n...

We took the train to Ayutthaya (pronounced I-You-Tie-Aah) which was an incredible 15 baht (70 baht=1 pound approx). It is an hour and a half north of Bangkok. We were late arriving in Ayutthaya as the train from Bangkok had crashed so that put us two and a half hours behind but seing as our hotel "Riverside" was only located opposite the train station we didn't have much trauma finding it. The train journey itself was a sweaty basic ride but as it was ...

We booked a sketchy adventure trip to the River Kwai region around Kanchanaburi and were left in the dark as to all details of the trip until we got there. Even then the plans were subject to change. All we knew was we were to be picked up from our Bangkok hotel and transported to Kanchanaburi for a series of activities. Firstly there was the Bangkok marathon outside our hotel on the morning of the pick up and so the bus was very late. We had started to feel t...

Hello everybody. We arrived in Bangkok at our hotel precisely 24 hours after leaving Heckmondwike. We couldn't have made a worse start than getting on the wrong train at Dewsbury, (I am ashamed) but it wasn't our fault! The departure board on the platform was displaying our airport train, but a Liverpool train turned up instead. It was so full that we only just avoided getting our rucksacks inside the doors! It wasn't until Stalybridge that I realised our mistake...