Bangkok: Temples and Tuk Tuks

We're back again, back where it all begun two years ago, back in Bangkok. We're staying at the best hostel/restaurant in Bangkok and dining on vegetarian, organic, additive free food and drinking Chang beer. We spent the first day doing as little as possible, we headed down to the backpacker mecca which is the Kho San Road to look at the wares on sale there. I'm so tempted to get a fake press card...
We go to a suit maker and ask him to duplicate my favorate skirt, he makes me two more. Paddy gets two shirts.
We go for a few cocktails at a street vendor/cocktail maker with some live music, we go to a bar where a guy sings Bob Dylan songs, we find an alley way which has become a bar and a Siamese cat (not a cojoined cat, btw, just a singular cat with large ears) which sits on my lap for the rest of the evening and falls asleep there.
The next day we wake and wander around the area, after checking out of the hotel, we go to see the reclining Budha, the Royal palace and walk by the wonderful Emerald Budha Wat. Hopping onto a long boat, we sail down the river, feeding friendly catfish and watching life go by. After a trip to the floating market we saunter back to the Kho San road before heading away.
We had bought our train tickets earlier that day from the Huamphong train station, which saved us 200 baht each (5 dollors) , on the travel agents offer. The train station is very friendly and easy to navigate, we find our train and settle in.

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