Bangkok - day 87

The bus ride to Bangkok exceeded all our expectations! There were only 8 rows of seats on the bus, meaning there was lots of space for our legs. On top of that, all the seats were business-class reclining massage seats!! We got a blanket and a movie to watch on TV (Untraceable, a Hollywood movie, though unfortunately in Thai...). There was even a steward who brought us drinks and sandwiches and chips (with sushi flavour) and soy milk in the morning. The service was great! We even arrived in Bangkok slightly ahead of schedule. European and Australian bus companies could learn a lot from this service!! From the bus station we took a taxi to the hostel, picked up our luggage, found out the buses to the south were full and took another taxi to Hua Lamphong station. We managed to book two beds on the 19h30 night train to Chumphon. We left our luggage at the station, took a tuk-tuk to the MBK mall, enjoyed a nice frappucino at Starbucks, did some shopping, then headed through all the other malls to the Siam Paragon mall. There we had lunch at a good Japanese restaurant and then went to the last floor to watch Fly Me to the Moon in the 3D iMax movie theater. The movie was actually a cartoon about some flies and it turned out to be aimed ONLY at children. Pierre had the idea of going to see that... That ought to forgive Nat of all the crap movies she ever made him watch!! Anyway, we got some sandwiches to eat on the train, took a tuk-tuk back to the station and enjoyed a 1 hour long Thai foot massage (for only 4 euros!). That was the best decision ever! It was incredibly relaxing and even included a short back, shoulder and neck massage. Our train was delayed by 2 hours, which might sound bad, but it was great news for us. It meant that we got to sleep 2 hours longer and get off the train in Chumphon at 6h and right away get on the bus that took us to the ferry pier where we arrived at 7h.

Weather: warm and polluted