Last day in Thailand

We have suddenly arrived at our last day. We thought we weren’t flying out for another 3 days, and we had left our tickets with our luggage which had been safely stored in a hotel in Bangkok so couldnt check. Emailed the travel agent when we were in Sangklaburi just to confirm that it was the 1st August that we were flying, then we were on our way up north again, but were so knackered after a long days travelling from Thong Pha Phum, that we decided to stop a night in Bangkok - checked our email when we got here and had a mail from the travel agent saying that we are flying tomorrow…
So our last stop turned out to be at a place called Thong Pha Phum, which was a nice wee town on the other side of the lake to Sangklaburi. Took a walk up to a Wat perched on top of one of those typical Thailand hills, which are mostly cliff with some jungle on top, rather like the Arazonian desert ones, but with hair. This one also had a load of steps that conveniently led to the top, and a wire that was used to pass things quickly up and down to the monks there (or alternatively provide another, much quicker way down if you want to avoid the mosquitos - we opted for the mosquitos). The view from the top was absolutely stunning - took my breath away. It was also slightly scarey, as it was rather narrow (around 5m), and had very tall and rather painfull looking cliffs in every direction. Ollie pretended to fall off the cliff for a photo - scared the willies out of me!!!! By the way, our Thailand photos will be appearing with the others (see photos page on this site) when we get home.
So now we are in Bangkok with 234678 tonnes of luggage (my suits added another 4-5 kilos) and a sore neck from carrying it all from the taxi to our lovely room just off the Khao San Road (around 100m). Really not looking forward to checking in at the airport tomorrow.
You might have noticed a suit reference in that previous paragraph. I am now the proud owner of 2 bloody lovely suits, one for our wedding and the other just cos it looked cool. Not entirely sure why i have ended up with 2 suits as i never wear the things, but am particularly pleased with them, and they do make my bottom look good (according to Ollie ).
Right, will sign off from Thailand now. Next stop - Wales! See ya there

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