On arrival we bump into a German guy and his Thai partner who are unbelievably kind and take us into town and book us into a swank hotel that otherwise would have been out of our budget. We later return the favour by drinking at his bar and then eating at his restaurant.
The town is seriously lovely and friendly but we need to move on. Our first bus of the day is cancelled, the next bus is an hour late and we don't both have seats. I get a seat on the back seat but Adrian has to stand. I great my fellow passengers with "Hello everyone it's great to meet you", this sets the scene for they whole 4 hour journey. First I show them my holiday photos on the ipad! then the lady next to me reads my palm before trying to convert me to Buddhism. One hand looks good the other suggests poverty or at least that's what I glean from her. The man next to me kindly shows me what he thinks I should see out of the window and the Buddhist monk on the end shares my Mintos, we're a motley crew but it works.
When we finally reach Phitsanulok I think we're ready to part company. Sadly our next bus is one hour late too. This means we reach our destination of Sukhothai in the dark. Thankfully the Sam lok (tuk tuk) driver doesn't mess us about too much before reaching a real price. Ooh it's been a long day.
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