As Lonely Planet had specifically, clearly and categorically stated NOT to cross the border from Malaysia into Thailand at Sungai Kolok, we thought this would be a marvellous wheeze and hoisted our backpacks on and trotted off to have a chat and be terribly British with the border guards. Slightly disappointingly, it all went so swimmingly that we were totally unprepared for the fact that Thailand is an hour behind Malaysia (not helpful when checking train times) and that if a Thai person makes a mistake, they really, really, really will not admit it, apologise or try and make amends in any way. We staggered into the train station with visions of a slightly better first class journey than our last and bought tickets for the express. We were told that it was delayed until 2pm
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