It’s the journey not the destination…

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Cambodia, Thailand | 13 comments It was with a touch of trepidation we started out on our first land border crossing as we had read about many of the scams that exist with this particular Thai-Cambodian border.   Even though the buses are faster we have always enjoyed train journeys  so we set an early alarm for 4am for a 4.30am taxi ride to Bangkok’s main station Hua Lamphong,  a beautiful building built in Italian...
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A week in Bangkok …

Posted by on Aug 8, 2012 in Thailand, Vaccinations | 10 comments Ok well it was 9 days to be exact.  Although we hadn’t made any other plans other than booking the first few nights, we had thought after our first lot of needles we would head somewhere out of Bangkok.  Alas it was not to be. I was feeling so ill from ‘flu that I couldn’t even entertain the thought of packing up and moving on so soon.  So we stayed. Our guesthouse...
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