Since our adjusting to the climate is taking longer then expected, we decided yesterday that seeing the sites needed to be done in baby steps...so, yesterdays one and only target was grand palace. First however, we needed to new digs. guesthouse on khao san road was a brave choice we knew this from the off but had to be done. A late morning departure meant that our first on foot journey with all belongings was done at nearly the hottest part of the day. Coupled with climbing several guest house stairs to view rooms and negotiating street carts, taxis and tuk tuks, which seem to have a habit of crawling behind pedestrians at an eeriely slow pace, we were completely beat by the time crashed into our room - this time with fan rather than a/c
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