Day 182, Kanchanaburi

After yesterdays exertions and early morning and with no plans apart from walk over the Bridge we treated ourselves to a lie in, mooched about a bit, got some late brunch and set off for the Bridge over the river Kwai. Again it was a bloody hot day, the walk took us 30mins to get to the bridge then we walked over it and back again. The day was full of ticking off the checklist of things to do,  inspired we walked along the tracks and set about it. First on the list was getting a coconut to drink which was fab, we continued to walk through this market which was full of locals and was half merged with a really shit carnival/fair, it was deserted but there were loads of people about, mixture of sleeping, walking and selling shit. On the way I broke my self imposed ban on fizzy drinks for the comical reason of having to sample a bag of coke. As they get money for the bottle recycling when you buy a soft drink they pour it into a plastic bag, top it up with ice and give you straw, hence you see loads of people going round with a bag of coke and a straw. The drink wasn’t that great but I slurped it with a constant smile/laugh on my face. Consuming our bag of coke we also stopped off for some undistinguishable meat on a stick which we see everywhere, the first was rubbish and was just fat on a bone (on a stick) the second though was sensational, liver charcoaled and it quickly disappeared. Walking back to the riverside room we stopped off at a bar for a beer and a few games of pool, back to mooch at the flat where I’ve booked 2 nights in Bangkok before heading North I think, then back out into the main strip for dinner. Not particularly hungry we stopped off at a bar on the pavement where you sit on upside buckets and had a couple of 10baht whiskeys before going to a cool place for dinner where I had a fantastic fish dish then in for a hours oil massage which was cracking. Back to the pavement bar for more drinks and headed home stopping off at the 7Eleven for cake and milk, watched a bit of facejacker on the internet and crashed out.