The Arctic Monkeys song "From the Ritz to the Rubble" depicts a Saturday evening that was glamorous, but when he wakes up the next day and thinks about it realises that it was not all that. This best describes the difference in standards between India and Thailand. Whilst in India we were absolutely used to grubby rooms, bucket showers, cows in the middle of the street, begging, cars going the wrong way up a street etc that when we arrived in Thailand we could not believe the cars stayed in their lanes, the airport was sophisticated and everything is more developed, cleaner, more accesible and asthetically pleasing. This does not mean that it is better than India, merely that the two are so far apart, both with beauty. We arrived in Bangkok and we walked on
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