Going to make these entries short and sweet as I am sooooooooo far behind.

Ayuthaya 15-17th Feb

Jenny and I traveled up to Ayathaya together by local bus. Auythaya was once the capital of Thailand way before Bangkok existed. However on arriving there you could be mistaken for thinking you had got on the wrong bus. I was expecting ancient buildings and narrow streets. Wrong. Ayuthaya on the surface looks like any other town or city in Thailand, wide multi lane highways, big modern buildings and thousands of motorbikes! However the ruins of the ancient city are there and we spend two days exploring them and numerous temples, our transport? knackered old push bikes again! and sure enough we both ended up with punctures and maintenance issues on numerous occasions.

The ruins of the old city were interesting but the temples weren't doing it for me. Maybe ive seen too many temples and the whole Wow factor has gone. Temples in Thailand all seem to look the same to me. But then just as I had lost interest we went to a temple, which is a big pilgrimage site to the Chinese Buddhist community of Thailand and home one of the largest golden Buddha’s in the world. It’s huge! We arrived in the middle of a religious ritual. That was fun, lots of noise, lots of yellow material being wrapped around the Buddha and the pilgrims. (Don’t ask me why!) and lots of people all generally doing their stuff. (As you can tell I’m well read on the worlds religions!)

Other than site seeing we spent time eating drinking etc.. with some German Guys (names escape me) and another Swedish girl named Eva. Don’t know why but the girl’s names don’t seem to escape me as easily!

After two days Jenny and I say our good-byes. She was a little tearful (Silly Girl!) and I head back to Bangkok by train.