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A Holiday from a Holiday
Kanchanaburi, our holiday from the big city. All this travelling just catches up on us sometimes so we just have to chill out in a remote rural town east of Bangkok. I have a cheek. Kanchanaburi may be best known to some of the older or intellectual readers for the 1957 blockbuster 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Basically during World War 2 the …
A holiday from a holiday
We actually ended up splitting our time in Bangkok in half, and paid a visit to a place called Kanchanaburi- famous for the bridge over the river Kwai. It was only 3 hours outside Bangkok so we just hopped on a local train for 100baht (£2).
We packed a lot into our time here, starting with …
Credit Card Catastrophe
... articles out of my bag and on to the shiny marble surface not giving a monkeys about what all of the 'well to do guests' would think of my performance I was just frantically trying to find my one and only debit card!
The guy then said "Don't worry your passport is enough proof, now all I need is the 2000 Baht deposit fee (forty pounds), then someone will show you to your room."
1) You made me go through all of that ...
Last one wahh :((
... there was a 2k uphill walk or a shuttle. There were some greenhouses full of cacti and rain forest sort of like the Eden project, plenty of beautiful plants and a waterfall. Another interesting place we found was a gallery down by the river full of weird Thai modern art. We got quite into our galleries and spent an afternoon on Nimmanhemin road browsing some small cafe/galleries. Apart from this we tried out a yoga lesson ( teacher was a bit weird), got a few massages, ...
Whiskey slammers
... and fish and nibbles and a lot of whiskey so now it was gonna be this lovely guesthouse with this amazing take-away. I was really building it up in my head, clean sheets, air con, hot shower, clean clothes…
So you can imagine my inner turmoil when I was handed a bloody two man tent. I really wasn’t in the mood for camping in the slightest. I wandered off just to chill out a bit and calm down. It really wasn’t that bad, it was a nice setting ...