As we stood waiting for Pao and Nui (friends of my dad whose apartment we would be staying in), we didn’t know quite what to expect. They had said that we would be staying in their apartment, which we assumed meant we would have our own private room, but not much more. Still, it wouldn’t matter, we only planned to spend 1 or 2 days in Bangkok, to see some of the sights we had missed before, and then we would get a move on to the south of Thailand. When Pao and Nui turned up they did so in style. Not only was their car a large brand new people carrier, but it had a DVD player in the roof and doors that closed themselves (which I nearly broke by trying to close). Upon arriving
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