9th November 2015 - Left our guesthouse at 8am today to walk to the main road to get a red cab to the train station.
Our journey to the bus station was far from comfortable. Getting into the back of a red cab with a huge, heavy rucksack is a far from easy task.
At the train station we boarded our train straight away - unfortunately we were at the very back, which meant we had to waddle down a very narrow aisle to our seats. Our next task was putting our rucksacks on the overhead shelf. Thankfully the conductor (?) was lovely and helped put them up.
Our 8 hour train journey went by quite quickly. We were sustained by the meals that were provided for us as well as an assortment of snacks. We passed the time by sleeping, talking and reading our teacher training notes that we hadn't had a chance to read yet.
As soon as we got off the train in Nakhon Sawan (about 4:15) we were approached by a taxi driver who we had to tell about 5 times that we didn't want a taxi.
We waited outside talking to the taxi driver until a woman selling water came up to us and suggested that we sit inside the station to wait for our lift, as the sun was very hot!
Inside, the woman turned the fan on for us and started talking to us. She was lovely, asking us where we were from, where we were going and why. She then gave us each a free bag of water.
Even though Nakhon Sawan is pretty good it seems that foreigners (farang) and still seen as somewhat of a novelty here - which explains why everyone in the train stations stared at us.
PeTong was away for the evening so Tos and his dad picked us up at about 5:15 and took us home.
Thai people really love people so naturally that's what we spoke about - I even introduced them to Watford FC!
For dinner we went out to a local restaurant and had super yummy food!
That week we relaxed at the house. This involved playing some much missed computer games on Tos' compute and going to the morning market. One evening Tos and his friend took us up the mountain on their bikes. At the top of the mountain there is a temple and some spectacular views of uthai thani!
At the house the grandfather cooked for us most nights - he was an amazing chef! We ate so much good food!
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| Views from the market |
On Saturday Kao,PeTong, Tos, Alex and I went up to Nakhon Sawan. PeTong was already up there for a meeting so the four of us got on the bus (287฿) which drove for an hour and a half to Big C shopping centre. First, we went to Swensens and all ordered sundae's whilst sitting in the same booth as we did on our first visit here.
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| Tos and Kao in Swensens |
After this we met PeTong and made our way up to the cinema. Unfortunately, all the films were in Thai :(
So we went bowling instead. We ordered quite a lot of food here, including some deep fried cheese sticks which were sooo good!
In the first game I came 2nd (out of Tos,Petong and I), and in the 2nd and 3rd games I came 3rd :( Although, in my defence, we played without the rails up, and I did pretty good!
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| Bowling |
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