Overnight Train to Bangkok from Champeon

Sat on a train writing this, its 10 oclock at night sat in 1st class on the lower bunk with Simon nattering away to me in the dark on the top bunk. We have left Ko Toa and caught a boat for 3 hours to mainland Thailand and now we are on the overnight train to Bangkok. We paid 1500 bahts each which is about 23 quid altogether. We decided to go 1st class as we get our own little cabin with a sink and space for the luggage. Shame we arrive in Bangkok at 6 in the morning. Before we got on the train we had a couple of hours to kill at Champeon town so we went for a really nice but oh so so spicy thai meal. I had spicy shrimp noodles and Simon had fried pork and fried rice with extra chilli added. We both had to sup our drinks quick just to get rid of the inflamed lips. We had a quick nosy through the night market and bought some grapes for 20bahts,and a really tacky but amusing dragon drum thingy for 40bahts(75p). This seemed to amuse people as we were waiting at the platform trying to work out which train we should get on, admittedly tippsy after supping a lot of drink cos of how spicy the food was. When i went in to the toilet at the station (which i took a pic of cos of the mold on the wall) Simon got accosted by a thai women and her son and he thought they wer begging for money but actually the son he had a questionaire that he wanted answering for school. We got a pic of them. I also got a pic of me with our guard from the train. They did the Vietnam giggling thing of wanting to see the pic once it had been taken.