Day 16 and 17: recovery

Sadly, our middle two days in Bangkok between the northern trek and the southern islands turned out to be a bit of a bust. I came down with a cold somewhere during the night train between Chaing Mai and Bangkok. Luckily, we had nothing really planned and our sweet tour leader arranged an early check- in for me at the hotel so that I could spend the whole day getting better. 

And I will only gush for just one sentence and say nick is amazing and brought me OJ, spring rolls and water all day. 

I did feel well enough to go to dinner with the group out at Kho San Road and really enjoyed the backpacker paradise. We had some cheeky drinks at the rooftop bar, but taxied home before the temptation to order a bucket sunk in too deep.

On the second night we took another night grin down to Suratthani- lots of beers and playing spoons in the "barcar" whilst a pitbull playlist pumped in the background. If the journey down to the south was this much fun... :)