Koh Chang and Bangkok

Anywhere when it is tipping down with rain is fairly miserable I have discovered.. even in paradise.... Koh Chang is very beautiful, pure white sand, palm fringed beaches, bamboo thatched bungalows on stilts framing the shore... rivers of rain running down the middle of streets, sandbags everywhere, people dashing through puddles of water, umbrellas propped up outside all bars and hotels... bliss !!!  This also seems a very popular destination for anyone married to a Thai bride... old fat ugly men married to lovely young Thai women ... I am sure they are very happy ... I just don't get it . Click on Video to see miracle .

The bungalow next to us ( it is pretty empty here ) has the ugliest sock wearing, fat Hawaiian shirt clad  repulsive guy in it , with the loveliest young handsome 17 year old Thai boy in it ... As I casually mentioned it to Brian in as you can imagine my unbiased self-opinionated way .. he said .. it's probably his adopted son !!!!!! God love his naivety .. So we didn't do much in Koh Chang.. slept, swam, drank, wrote, read. Freaked myself out everynight that someone was trying to break in   It rained so hard we thought about building an ark.. took lots of photos of us !! I realised Brian was my god when he could actually walk on water ... another miracle occured when I realised I could turn alcohol into urine ...(not sure what the role the elephants trunk played in it ) We were so bored by day 3 we decided to head back to Bangkok...

So onto a mini bus , back on rusty old  woolwich ferry. onto a big bus and 6 hours later arrived at Bangkok station where we got into a tuk tuk and taken back to the hotel we started in The Shanghai Mansions ... when we were very green and bewildered.. now we are hard nosed Olfactory desensitised , bartering experts ..
This room is exactly the same as the last room except we have to sleep in a cage !!! now , I know Brian snores a lot and sounds like an animal , but a cage !! I also realise we are in Bangkok the 'sex capital of the world ' but a cage .. Brian looked quite pleased.. I told him to forget it , he is thinking bondage I am thinking WWF !!! no not WTF .. WWF ! jesus man .. only joking, it was a mammoth task climbing into bed, a shimmying up and down the mattress..  now I have seen Ceide (our mutt) slide her but up and down the carpet .. think of that and think of Brian dragging himself up and down the mattress.... I have just reread that . eeewww ... enjoy being on the end of that sentence !!! you don't have to read this you know !! you can read the paper or hello magazine....

The next day bought with it more rain.. Bankok is not nice in the rain, greasy roads.. too much traffic, filthy water running off everything.. so we decided to go to MBK .this is like Bluewater but with a heavier waft of garlic in the air, and clothes which seemingly only go upto a size 8 , to fit the lovely skinny Thai girls / and boys !
I was on a mission to buy a new pair of trainers and start training again as I am beginning to look like Dawn French, ( No offence Dawn ) we shopped and shopped ... we eventually found, ( I think I lost 10 pounds just walking the 6 floors of crap ) and I love them , we are going to run across the world together, and I can't wait ... I am going to eat up some Asian Tarmac, or muddy road, or pot holed gravelly road, well what ever road surface it is I am going to do it some damage... to be fair , my plodding in this earthquake sensitive part of the world could start another Tsunami ... get those sandbags ready and head for higher ground ..
So after an exhausting days shop we wearily headed back in the rain in a tuk tuk in the rush hour for an early night in our cage ..

The next day we packed our rucks , and got a cab to the southern bus terminal... destination Kancharburi, or the The Bridge Over The River Kwai to you and me ..