trains and planes and confusion!

We took the overnight rain from Chiang Mai to Ayuthaya just near Bangkok. It wasn;t the best journey.

Our cheap 3rd class tickets weren't going to be the fold down ones we expected. Just short wooden benches with a solid 90 degree angle. My stomach started hurting just as we were getting on the train and after about an hour i was really ill. It was just horrible. Not sure what exactly caused it, but i was so sick. Spent most of the 14hr trip in the bathroom vomiting. So horrible, but at least we weren't on the bus, i guess ;) . It was such a relief to get off at last, and get to the place that someone had recommended to us. It was nothing special but nice and clean and airy, and you could watch DVDs downstairs, so it was perfect to catch up on sleep and recover a bit! I did feel that it was a bit rubbish cos it was our last day in Thailand, and it was a shame not to be eating curry or at least doing something, but i just couldn't face it. Later on tho, we were watching James Bond, when Marc noticed that the clock on the wall said 27th February...hmm, our flight which we thought was the next day was on the 1st. SO we'd actually totally miscalulated and arrived a day early!

So happily we DID get to spent the last day looking around Ayuthaya and eating curry! its a nice town, with lots of ancient Khmer type ruins in the parks. Also we went to an elephant krall, where we saw an elephant with the massivest tusks ever, and also fed a little baby one. Lovely!

The next day we left what we thought was plenty of time to get to the airport as the woman in our hotel told us it took half an hour. It actually took 1 1/2 hrs, so again we had to run through check-in and the whole airport, they announced our names 3 times and just about managed to catch the plane. Even though we were a day early. Oh dear-seat of our pants as always!