Sunday 24th February 2008

We got up this morning and before catching our bus to Kanch- anaburi, we went for breakfast in one of the cafés close to our hotel. It was a British café and I had boiled eggs with soldiers and Nikki had Marmite on toast... Mmmmmm. When it was time to go, we collected our bags, checked out and walked round to the travels agents.

It took a few hours to get to Kanchanaburi, but when we arrived we were well impressed. I don't know whether the driver was on commission, but he only took us to one guest house, called Bamboo House. It didn't matter though - we loved it straight away! We were shown one of the available rooms, which was actually FLOATING ON the River Kwai, and we could see the famous bridge from our door. There were only a few rooms and the whole place had a lovely tranquil feel to it. We dumped our bags in our room (which was just a fan and a mattress on the floor) and then went for some lunch.

This afternoon we wandered up to the bridge on the River Kwai, which is probably the most famous part of the Death Railway. Before we got to the actual bridge, we had a look around the Jeath War Museum, which was pretty sad - reading about how all the POWs were treated and forced to build the bridge. When we'd finished, we took a walk across the bridge and, when we made it safely back to the start, we were surprised to see that a train was also trying to cross - even though there were people stood on the track!

Tonight, me and Niks took a walk away from our guest house and down towards the main centre of Kanchanaburi in search of food. We were glad we did - we found a cracking Indian restaurant and had a smashing meal. Indian food is quite expensive here (in comparison to the other food anyway) - but we thought we deserved it!

Yippee! Another Indian... aww, we miss Paprika!