Although only being back for 36 hours, Bangkok still managed to remind us what a great city it is. As I dozed on the bus from Vientiane, I knew we had arrived when I spotted the first brightly coloured taxi. Then, a sense of confusion fell upon me. The bus was meant to arrive around 5.30am, but out my window, the roads were still packed with revellers, some eating in resteraunts, some in bars, others carrying backpacks around. Its 5am I thought, the place should be a ghost town. But then I realised. This is Bangkok, Khao San Road, Bangkok. As the bus had arrived early, Paul and I had longer to wait before checking into a guesthouse. So we nipped into a 24hour Subway resteraunt for a Sub of the day and refillable drink. With
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