Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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Part 1 - Bangkok & Myanmar
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A Cockerel woke me up, so I went out and got water and had breakfast and hotel staff told me my booking this time was through booking com which would be why I had to pay more and to the hotel. The room was pretty sweet though with 2 beds a TV which did show some movies and my own bathroom for a reasonable price. Went and got a bike and did laundry again, its a great place 4,000 for the bike rental and laundry called little travel something . Found that the reason I had no speed was I didn't change gear, doh. Got cash out to pay for the room and the receipt said they charged me a 5000 fee which is a lot but still less than Thailand, I had planned to take money out here and change in Thailand to save the fees but I won't now did my pressups and having lost a bit of weight I looked quite good. Checked email and it turned out that I had used agoda just they had sourced it through booking.com which was interesting. Messaged Victoria so we could go biking round temples and when she came round she just had a normal bike as she had explained yesterday she doesn't ride motorbikes but I hadn't properly remembered, still it was relaxing for me as the e-bike was fast enough and I could hide my things away. We stopped first at the tourist info where a woman was able to tell us some things then headed on stopping at lots of places all over. I managed to get stuck in some mud and almost lost a flip flop and was a bit off a mess but we carried on visiting places for a bit. Around 11.30 Victoria's bike got a flat tyre as a small stick got stuck in the tyre and she made the mistake of pulling it out but we were able to get back to the bike shop in time and while they were fixing the bike we had lunch and I cleaned up a bit. I had a small noodles with vegetables dish and Victoria had a large potato curry dish but I think I had more on my plate, maybe a sexist thing. I had thought the night before that she could maybe get into Mensa but it turned out not to be the case as she had done well on an IQ test but not quite high enough. We headed back out visiting more places and at some point I ripped my trousers climbing one pagoda which Victoria noticed then at another pagoda I took a step too far to be on the edge for a photo and completely split my trousers. I decided to keep them on for the day but threw them out later. Sand paintings are the main thing they sell everywhere which is on cotton so you can supposedly fold it and even wash it and its still ok, and Victoria heard some German tourists at one temple asking the same question about whether it can be washed in the machine twice and moved on so she could avoid hearing them. There were not too many English tourists around, more French. At 2.45 Victoria had to rush off to get back for a tour so I carried on seeing places I'd not been to or that were the major attractions and also managed to get stuck in the mud again. Headed round to Andrew's hotel but he was not there so I headed back to try to see the sunset as it was looking pretty special and a friend had posted an amazing sunrise picture with balloons the day before so I wanted some of that and rushed to try to get to a climbable temple but only managed a hill and a lake which gave me at least a different picture from other people. Then I had to get back in the dark and the bike started slowing down so after a while I turned the light off and it still got slower with time so I walked it up a bit of a hill and it was struggling all the way back but just made it back to the bike shop. I went back to the hotel, cleaned up, sorted some things out, had a healthy dinner to get more vitamins and then had an early night to try to make sunrise the next day as its turns out that is when the balloons take off.
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