After 2 days in Bangkok, we boarded a train and 14 hours later we were in Chang Mai. The train was not as bad as we'd expected; we got beer, dinner, breakfast and at about 9pm a man came round and turned all of the chairs into bunk beds so it was actually quite comfortable. We were met in Chang Mai by a woman holding a sign that read "Mr & Ms Simon", we correctly assumed that this was for us! Our hostel here is really good, the people are so firendly and helpful and the room is really nice. On our first day here there was a huge festival to celebrate the end of the rainy season. It was absolutely crazy, we wandered down to the river which seemed to be where all the action
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