Jakey Jake

Tuesday 23rd March
Couldnt wait to get on that bus to the cambodian/thai border. What an incredible change it was over the border, just a short 500m walk. Suddenly we were in civilization, with 7 elevens and KFC, WOHOOOOO. what a much needed break from the beggars and the hoplessness of poverty in cambodia, whos only real possibility of redemption is tourism to angkor. Anyway we took another bus from the border to the bus depot where we switched to a taxi for the rest of the trip to the hotel. “20 minutes to the hotel”. For anyone who has been in bangkok traffic you will realise that this roughly translated into “one hour unless the car breaks down or overheats”. when we got to the hotel i noticed a funny bump on my elbow. after checking in it was time for dinner, so we grabbed a taxi to kho san road (the main backpackers area). they had been doing some roadworks and there was mess everywhere, but you can certainly feel the life of the city, theres a tonne of energy here. we stopped in one of the restraunts at the side of the road for a dinner, most people ordering curries only to have their heads blown off suffa, spicy food sux then i went for a stroll in the market before heading to an irish bar on the corner. I have to say its utterly gross to see ugly fat balding old western men taking advantage of poorer thai women who are so clearly disinterested in their partners, and more in their partners cash. its not just the older men as well, it seems to be most guys, its vile. get a grip. anyway we left this dump for another bar called lava, which was relatively dead but we were assured by Bond, our tour guide, that it would get packed. And sure enough it did, it was also about this time i noticed the bump on my left elbow had swollen to the size of half a tennis ball, and it F^&*ING KILLED. i thought i would go home and put it on ice and see what the deal was. Kho san road was still packed at about 1am.