After a nice chat on the phone for varying lengths of time to every member of my immediate family, it was time to meet my new tour group in the Chinatown district of Bangkok. There are only 6 of us this time, as opposed to the 12 of the Geckos tour of Thailand, which is lovely, and our tour leader is an Australian, who lives in Vietnam. All in all, this, mixed with the 50% or so free-time of this tour, which is actual free time, not 'do the extra activity or sit in a truck for the day' makes Intrepid many times the superior of Geckos in my books. Anyway, that night we went to Khao San Road (which is the only place in Bangkok that I find actually has some character- another tick to
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