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Massaman Curry (as a cure for cracked skulls)
Friday, July 21st, 2006
Walked into the jungle today. Literally 
The girl at first aid flagged down a truck to take us to the doctors, but as that wouldve meant we had no way to get home after, we insisted on taking the bus. We had been in Erawan National Park – a gorgeous seven tiered waterfall thing in a nice bit of Thai rainforest. Feet and legs had been eaten by fish in one of the pools.. actually several of the pools, and we had got soaking wet in the monsoon rains that decided to give it their best when were right at the top of the falls. It was at this point that we realised that the last bus of the day was leaving in an hour, and so started to rush back down. The disagrement with the tree (at least the overhanging branch part of the tree) happened thankfully not far from the bus. Had 5 minutes before the bus left, so Ollie suggested that we go and see first aid. The first girl was very helpfull, and screemed and ran off when i took my hat off to show her my injury. Another girl with a slightly stronger stomach came and covered me with betadine. We then took the bus back to Kanchanuburi, our current town of residence. Journey was only an hour, and the bleeding had stopped way before, and as Ollie had pointed out that the cut was only small and clean, and as Stephen had pointed out that he would rather eat seafood than go and get stitches, we went home to clean it up and soak it in more betadine. Its fine now (we have just had dinner, and it behaved very well – didnt ooze once!) but we have a backup of painkillers waiting in the hut for us to get me through the night.
So we are in Kanchanuburi – that of the Bridge over the River Kwai fame. After leaving Chiang Mai, we took the bus down to Phitsanolok from where we were going to travel east. We changed our minds, as we had had enough of staying in big noisy cities, and east would take us to another, so we took the train down to Bangkok instead 
The train journey was excellent (3rd class is actually more comfortable than 2nd if not travelling overnight) once Ollie had finished throwing up everywhere (her stomach didnt like either the raw egg or ice made from tap water – not sure which one did it, but she wasnt happy for an hour or so at the train station). A very brief night was spent in Bangkok, before getting the train over to Kanchanuburi the following morning. Have just relaxed and had a nice time since being here (todays head incident excluded) – rented some pushbikes yesterday and had some interesting times on the road as we cycled to the Jeath Museum. This was a war museum dedicated to all the prisoners of war that died building the Death Railway during the second world war. Really interesting, but also really depressing (obviously).
Not sure what the plans are for the next few days – my head has got to have a wee bit of recovery time, and we havent had a Thai massage for a few days now. Ollie is still keen on doing a cookery course, but i think we will put our second trek off for a day or two.
