Sawasdee from Kanchanaburi

Friday - 2 May 08

Hi to everyone out there. Hope you are enjoying the blog. This post is a day late, I did do a post last night but forgot to publish and it went to draft and I can't work out how to publish it from the draft file.

Today (Friday) was an R & R day as we are exhausted from 2 days of doing tours with long drives. We were both awake early and hungry so headed out for breakfast and a decent cup of coffee. We found a nice cafe a little down the road which had real Nescafe coffee so we had an american breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and Nescafe coffee with carnation milk as there is no fresh milk here in Thailand.

We then decided to go to the bridge markets which are night markets that are closed at night and only open during the day (we are catching on !) a nice older Thai man offered to take us on his Rickshaw and we agreed and this poor bloke had to peddle us two fatties 2km down the road to the market. We also went through the Jeath Museum which is quite a huge and comprehensive museum with artifacts and information about the prisoners of war during the second world war which were used to build the Burma railway and Hellfire Pass. It really opens your eyes.

We didn't find anything at the markets and our Rickshaw biker was waiting for a fare back so we thought 'why not' and headed back to the guesthouse. We paid him well as it was stinkin hot and his was sweating like crazy carrying us two back and forth, we talked with him the whole way and in all honesty Australians would die if they had to work the hours these people work and do the jobs they do just to survive, how lucky are we.

Managed to talk Rick into having a foot massage which turned into a foot, shoulder, head, neck and back massage and believe me you haven't had a real massage until you have had a Thai massage. They find muscles you never know had and your body creaks and cracks as they kneed the oldness out of you. How loose does your body fell afterward, its amazing. I recommend to everyone, have a Thai massage.

We veged out all arvo and then caught a songchaew into Kanchanaburi town to go to the night markets which we found close of a night time and open during the day again! Rick bought himself a couple of pair of board shorts and I managed to finally find some sandals (kids ones) which were reasonably cheap. We had dinner at Kentucky Fried (thats twice this week) and headed back to the guesthouse. I am not having much success finding 'fat shorts' but I will keep looking. Dropped our washing off at Reception to get done so we are not carrying dirty clothes in our backpacks, 1kg washing is 15 Baht, I couldn't do it that cheap myself.

All in all it was a relaxing day and we stayed in tonight to watch the AFL footy game on the Australian channel of cable TV and West Coast got throttled, Yeh!!!!!!

Until tomorrow !!!!!!!!!