To Laos!

We leave Bangkok. . . I´m 2kg up from a week ago and allowed to move. The evening train. We are shelved immediately into top bunk berths. School dormitories down the carriage.

Treated to a final farewell meal - being back chez les parents and fantastically looked after: not an incentive to leave soon. A posh farang restaurant overlooking with potentially picture postcard views across the river. And Mother sick. . .