The Mosquitos found my blood tasty last night, they had a party on my legs; I have about 10 new bites. Great!
We tried getting up early this morning but it was not the case! I couldn't wake up for the life of me.
We had breakfast at the restaurant next door, I had cornflakes and fruit, finally some normal British breakfast!
We hired the bike from the same place out of convenience and they didn't look all that bad.
Went to the Thailand and Burma death railway, it was eery to think how it was made and not all that long ago really. We didn't think that the railway was still in working use because people were walking all over it, there was no sign to say 'watch out for the train'... Well we were totally wrong! Two loud toots, we jumped out of our skin! The train was coming at a fair speed and stopped dead at the start of the bridge. Okay... So now what do we do!? There were little platforms that jutted out across the bridge so that you could stand on, behind the red line so you didn't get crushed or have to jump off the bridge. Some Bizarre ways these Asians have about them!

Walked around the part of town it was in, they sell a lot of beads and pearly jewellery here; tacky as hell not a hippy tourist shopping ground.
Kanchanaburi is a small town, has all the amenities and of course way too many temples (but that's the same everywhere)
There are a lot of houses that look like something out of a wild Wild West movie, with the shacked up shops spilling out of them on the street with their walls ice cream parasols shading their 'fresh' fruit and 'freshly cooked' sausage on a stick, fish balls and grilled whole chicken flattened in half and threaded between two chop sticks. Yummy!
We went to the JEATH museum, it was a photo museum and it had replica bamboo huts which the PoWs were forced to live in whilst building the railway, they had 2.5foot width of bamboo bed to lie on each and there were about 100 of them in each hut. Most of them with skin disease from maggots in the bamboo, poor working conditions and malnutrition. Cholera and malaria was spreading everywhere and ulcers from spiky bamboo that would literally eat their limbs away.
They were only fed 700grams of rice a day each and they worked for about 12-18 hours per day. So sad, these men were soldiers, some were engineers and technicians. It teaches you how to appreciate things in life, it's right when they say we don't know we're born.
We tried digesting the information and swallowing the lump in our throats after reading some gut wrenching articles and postcards secretly sent from soldiers to their families whilst in captivity and the articles of those who survived the camps.
We went to the bus station to check out times of buses for the potential next stop!

Last day of antibiotics today, definitely sorted my stomach out! feeling a lot better for nipping it in the bud.

Bite to eat on the main road up from the hotel, took the moped. Couldn't believe how chilly it was; don't realise the breeze coming off the river until the sun goes down!