Martyn makes a new friend

Her name is Bettina. She is dark haired with beautiful deep brown eyes and a gorgeous smile and spoke French fluently. She is three. Martyn was very pleased his school book fresh could manage conversation with Bettina. Well he was at the start of their relationship. Towards the end of the 4 hours it took us to get back to Bangkok I think he was rather glad he had his iPod!

After a peaceful night on our floating hotel (once earplugs had been inserted to block out sound of locals playing snooker outside our room - do you have any idea how annoying the clacking of snooker balls can be??) we went for our bamboo rafting and elephant riding experience which was okay but was made much better by the fact that we had already met Bettina by then and these two activities were much improved when viewed through the eyes of a three yr old!

For the grown ups there was the Hellfire Pass memorial museum and walk which was much much better than Kanchanaburi in terms of information and remembrance. The things human beings can do to each other..........

And then back to Bangkok for our last night in the centre. It was on the way back that we were reminded of something from our student days..... Whilst I am still not keen on mango we do quite like instant noodles occasionally - they're good because they're fast! Having overcome the culture shock I think we might quite miss this crazy place but ho hum, on to Cambodia!!