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2004-09-14 16:16:21

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town is alike but is located in many mini soy’s (allies).

Bangkok feels like a milestone for us. This was our initial goal, cycling to Bangkok, and now we have 10 weeks left!! Bangkok is also the city where we catch up with the latest movies that are viewed in English here (three in three days isn’t so bad, is it), go get a decent haircut and where we have our Christmas dinner. Here we also meet Sonja and Josh again, two cyclist from England (actually she’s Dutch) we met in Laos and Cambodia and are heading back home (more or less). We have a nice seafood dinner with them and discuss the cycling experiences around South-east Asia.

25/12/04) Today it’s Christmas!! Nothing reminds us of Christmas, at least if you try to think away the ‘I am dreaming of a white Christmas’ songs and the white snow in the shopping windows in the upper class shops down town. None of the guesthouses organises anything like a Christmas dinner and so we organise an enormous seafood plate ourselves...

For Christmas dinner we have lots of shrimps and a very good barbecued Red Snapper which only costs 100 Baht ($2.5), where is the time that you had to save money for your Christmas dinner with fish!?!?!? Calculate the profit of a very good X-mas dinner in a sea food restaurant in Europe!

Butt tight to Khao Sok.

(26/12/04) We challenge the Bangkok traffic back to the train station and take the train to Chumphon in Southern Thailand. No one wants to cycle this part, there its flat, straight and includes dense traffic. We throw our luggage through the window from the platform into the train and Raymond moves our bicycles over to the cargo wagon at the front side of the train. We planned to go diving at Koh Tao, but after Raymond had the flew that René (someone has to be blamed) brought over from The Netherlands, I am the next victim. So we have to ...