Hmmmm we appear to be listing

But only really excessively in the bathroom of our ensuite in our floating hotel! And you can see the quite fast flowing river from between the floorboards (well the ones not covered in Lino anyway). Quite surreal illusion of movement as you attempt to compensate for the distinctly left hand sloping toilet. One of lifes important experiences I think :)
So today saw another 6am start and we headed off to Kanchanaburi home of the Bridge Over the River Kwai. True story not quite as the film and no David Niven either just lots of tourists and Market stalls, oh and the bridge. Found a museum which gave a bit of insight and you can't complain for £1 entry really!
Suffice it to say we have been to quite a number of war memorials, cemeteries and war museums on our various travels. Peace, tranquility and remembrance usually pervade, with historical information if desired. Kanchanburi is not especially peaceful or tranquil - the firecrackers and backfiring engines from the garage next door to the war cemetery didn't really help.

Did enjoy the train ride along the "death railway" as the views were very nice. Somehow it seems very wrong though to have turned such a thing into a tourist attraction. We did our best to ignore the scantily clad loud American teenage girls behind us and paused to remember how the railway came to be in existence in the first place.
Then off to lunch and to view a waterfall before tootling down to the most peaceful place we have found so far on our travels around Bangkok. Our little floating hotel. Nothing but us, ten other guests, two long boats, a few bamboo rafts and the sound of the raindrops (yes, classic rainy season downpour at 4pm for half an hour has cleared the air a bit) oh and a crocodile!

Some things are the same the world over though - Sunday afternoon is obviously sports watching time , at home it would be grand prix or something, here all the blokes avidly watching Thai boxing!
Happy Mothers Day by the way, to all mothers reading our blog but especially to our mums - hope the presents arrived and have a lovely day.

That's odd - someone has a radio playing here and the overture from Carmen is playing - now where have I heard that before?!

Well I'm off - postcards to write and I need to make sure Martyn doesn't drown himself - I've just looked round and he's leaning upside down over a barrier trying to take a photo.

(worth it I think -m.)

More tomorrow - if the anchor holds!!!