And the sweat bath begins

Now thats more like it! Lie still, feel damp, move, sweat. Not actually that hot - yet but humidity has arrived. Yum. Not quite at the 'wet n dryin' it clothes stage but working up to it for Cambodia we think.

Sun came out when we were at Ayutthaya yesterday - gotta laugh, we'd been commenting on how cold it was and then when the sun came out we headed for the shade of the railway station. Lovely train journey back to Bangkok though - saw a bit more of the Thailand I had imagined and FINALLY managed a successful train journey having missed out on two in NZ. Hurrah.

Had to walk for an hour to get back to hostel from train station. We were dripping wet by then so resorted to air conditioner in room for 20mins and a shower. After 20 mins of A/C I had goose bumps so we had to turn it off again!
Unfortunately whilst in Ayutthaya the mozzies found us again - our hostel had a fish pond and they got us there. I have three bites around my left ankle. At least I think its where my ankle is - having been on feet all day ankle bone has disappeared in puffy mass. Very pretty! Needless to say Martyn is now being organised and hunting for our DEET - its time!

Today was another busy day - up at 8am and off to Dusit Park to see the worlds largest teak building - Vimnamek Palace - sort of the Royal families summer residence. Very proudly displaying china from Denmark, Italy and England, grand piano from England, glass from Italy, more china from China and stuffed turtles from Phuket.

It took us 1.5 hours to walk to Duset so we looked really good when we got there. Not at all sweaty, just cool calm and collected (yeah right). Found cafe and downed ice cold drink each - much relief.

After palace walked (are we mad) to sky train station - another 30 mins ish so again we looked really good when we hit the nice air conditioned train. It was quite full and unfortunately for everyone else all the hand holds required that we raise our arms to hold on. I don't think the locals here have sweat glands. Martyn and I were making up for all of them!
And we were off to Chatuchak market - MASSIVE market selling everything from.....well no just pretty much everything actually! Nearly came away with about 25 puppies a) because they were so cute b) because some of them did not look weened yet and c) because it just seemed wrong them being there. Resisted puppies and were quite tempted by the knock-off jeans and shoes but still have 'x' weeks to go and not carrying anymore in this heat. Decided the huge paintings might result in excess baggage fee and that we really didn't need 25 silk elephant key rings, Thailand pencils or plastic flowers. Bought lunch instead. At least you now know what you are not getting as presents when we come back!!

Ankle had gone all puffy by this point so got Tuk Tuk back to hostel. Who needs the adrenalin thrill Queenstown when for two pounds fifty you can hurtle through streets with cars coming at you in the opposite direction. Martyn assures me we didn't go more than 40 but he hasn't qualified a unit km/h, mph or metres per second.......he did comment that he feels he has now fully lived through the arcade game 'Need for Speed'.......personally I do not think there is any 'need' for it at all. Ah well, had a lovely conversation with a chap at lunchtime who said roads in Vietnam are way worse than here. Oh joy, its good to have things to look forward to in life....