After our horrendously long coach journey to Bangkok we were abruptly woken up by the Thai driver shouting "Wake up! You get off NOW." We bundled our stuff up and set off in the pouring rain to find a hostel (bearing in mind it was 6am!). We arrived at the hostel that was recommended to us and at about half past 7 the receptionist finally took pity on us and offered us a double room with a 'matress' on the floor. This matress, however, was more of a resemblance of paper than it was of any kind of bedding, but not wanting to venture out in the rain we accepted the room. That day we set off in our, not very waterproof, rain macs and made our way to the grand palace. This was a beautiful
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