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Getting a tuk-tuk to the bus station we set about getting a ticket. Asking for a ticket to Thaton, got confused looks. Eventually he got what I was asking for and said we were at the wrong bus station. Didn't know there was two! So another tuk-tuk ride to the right station. Here we asked for a ticket to Thaton, still confused looks. Then "Ta Tun." I had been emphasising the hiatch too much, or just full stop. The bus was okay, and the window pulled up very high, ...

Day 1 We got to the train station having been driven by a lad of a taxi driver. We arrived in good time, grabbed some food and boarded. We found a carriage marked '2', got to our bunks and put our stuff down. When the ticket inspector arrived, it transpired that we were not in carriage 2 but the second class section and we were shunted down the train. It turned out that another person in our carriage had done the same thing, and Irishman called Eddie, and we tro...

Arriving in Bangkok airport in the early evening we strolled straight down to the train station and caught a train into bangkok centre. Leaving the train station we got chatting to a Thai guy. He told us he used to live in Ireland and asked where we were heading off too. Telling him next shop was Chiang Mai and that we would get either a bus or the train. He goes f@@k that man, you dont want no bus, you want sleeper car on the train. OK cool good advice. He then ...