Bangkok

We arrived in Krungthep mahanakhon amonratanakosin mahintara ayuthaya mahadilok popnoparat rathathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasthan amonpiman avatansathit sakkathattiya witsanukamprasit (official name, more popularly know as Bangkok for some reason) early, having got the night train from Trang. We shared a berth with two Thais, one of them an elderly gentleman. It appears to be universal symptom of old-age that you enjoy persevering with speaking your own language at foreigners no matter how obviously they cannot understand you and this old boy was no exception, believing that increasingly vigorous gesticulation would increase comprehension to whatever he was trying to explain about our food.



After a bit of admin including collecting the suits I'd got made previously (wondering what sort of state I must have been in to order a brown pinstripe with pink trim on the lining) we visited What Benchamabophit (Wat Ben), which houses an interesting collection of Buddha statues.