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Final blog...
... YouTube outakes and laughing so I watch and they are the painful outtake types like falling off a bike or off a boat and so every time there is a painful moment I say 'ow!' and she says 'Mai ow'... I realise 'ow' means ''want' and 'Mai ow' is don't want... So everytime someone gets polaxed I am saying I want that to happen to me?! And she is saying she doesn't but doesn't get the English version of the word... Maybe you had to be there?!?
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Day 1 - Arrival Day
... onto the river and three ladies selling boat rides we managed to barter from 500 each to 300baht (£6) each but we still think this was a rip off. On board the boat - private boat for the four of us can I add. We zoomed along the river where we soon arrived at the canals where we drifted round and saw the standard of living people houses/huts that look over and build on the polluted dirty water. We also witnessed cat fish being feed with bread. After an hour we arrived ...
Bangkok
So we set off from our hostel in HK to make our way to the airport - and met another guy and girl at the bus stop that we got chatting too. It turned out we'd all been staying in the same hostel for the last few days and were on the same flight to Bangkok. We spent the rest of the journey together and Igor bought us all breakfast - very nice to have something simple like a Starbucks every once in a while. On arriving in Bangkok though the taxi drivers weren't too keen ...
Bangkok madness part 2
we just sat and watched the world go by. About an hour outside of Bangkok the train stopped ad all the women selling dried meat, rice and very strange looking bags of coloured god knows what jumped on the train and offered to sell you some dubious food, then they hopped off at another station. When we got to Bangkok we were like arrrrrgggg culture shock although we knew what it was like after being down south with the sea air it was overwhelming. We decided just to head to ...
Day 2 - Arriving in Bangkok
... of strawberry fanta which isn't in the UK, located the train which takes us into the city centre. It cost us about 80p for a 30 min train ride - already highlighting how cheap transport is in this region! We got off the train, and immediately the baking heat hit us! It was actually pretty cloudy, bit this did nothing to make it better! I think I'm going to struggle to adjust to newcastles cold weather when I go back! As ...