Well a bit of an update for you guys, I left you when my intention was to head south to Ko Samui to I will pick up from then!!
So I got up nice and early (7am) on the friday morning and made my way to the train station via a tuk tuk (will tell you a funny story about tuk tuk's later) he in fact took me to a travel agent where he assured me it was a good place to buy my ticket, so a little sceptical I went in to this place which was situated in a bit of a back alley and was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by a bubbly canadian! Who's first words to me were “you asked to go to the train station didn’t you” I smiled and said yeah how did you know?? he replied by explaining that travel agents, suit makers and jewellery shops pay tuk tuk drivers 400 baht to bring tourists to their shops! And advised me next time I get on a tuk tuk to say to the driver for example “you take me to train station and I will give 2 stops and you pay me 200 baht” the driver is more than willing because he will be making 600 baht profit and all I would do is walk around the shop for 5-10 mins looking interested and everyones happy!!!!!!!
Anyway on with the story, I asked Keith (the canadian) if I could buy a train ticket to go down south, he laughed at me and told me although the islands were fine and no more floods, there was no way of getting there for a couple of days, so instead I booked a 3 day trip up north, leaving the next morning so I found somwere els to stay for the night and embarked on my trip the next day which I will tell you all about in the next blog!!
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