Windsor Resort, Lopburi, Day 2

It is never easy to get up in an air conditioned room, but free breakfast helps. Unfortunately my stomach is feeling a bit off today so after two slices of toast I walk past the eggs and noodles and rice and get ready for a long day of travelling. It is three hours to Bangkok and the train is mercifully empty. Apart from barging into a woman who seemed to be hiding from the ticket man in the toilet and getting berated in Thai (I have no sympathy for people who don't lock the toilet door and complain that someone saw them going about their business, a lock is there for a reason) it was a good journey.
We arrive in Bangkok to get a passport, so our first stop (that we hope would be our only stop) is the Embassy. I don't know what to expect, but what we get is shoved into a tiny room with nothing but a telephone in it. It feels like a daft game show, but we ring the number and Amy is soon chatting to a very unhelpful man, who gives her another number to ring and a website to go on (which we have already been on). That is as far into the embassy that we can go, and for the first time it feels like we may be getting the next flight back to England.
We decide while in Bangkok we may as well go to the UK visa centre and ask about extending our visas. We planned to do this in Chiang Mai but Amy has no proof of her visa as it was in her passport. So off we go in another taxi to a huge shopping mall kind of place. 28 floors up we find the office and tell a woman behind a desk of our situation. We are immediately sent into a room where a man (a real human, not a voice down a telephone) gives us some forms and sorts everything. A new passport, temporary documents that can act as one until the new one is ready, and information on our visas. He is a Godsend on what we thought was going to be a wasted trip.
Elated, we walk through Bangkok to the train station, ready to go back to Lopburi where our bags have been left and our journey can continue. It is a crazy city, and the roads are mostly packed full of cars. Luckily a walkway has been built above all the roads, so the walk isn't too bad, just insanely hot.
After some pad Thai we are back on the train, and another three hour journey soon passes by. We walk back to the hotel, getting slightly worried about the wild dogs that apparently roam the streets at night, and can finally relax in our cool, comfy room. We eat some crisps that come wirh sachets of chilli and kethcup sauce that sound disgusting but taste like heaven and get ready for a long overdue rest. We left at seven, and arrive back just before nine, but the mission has been accomplished, and we can sleep a lot better tonight knowing the only thing the alarm is set for is so we don't miss the free buffet breakfast!Läs mer