Unfortunately there's not much to report for this day. It was all about trying to relieve my money issues. With only 70p left and no way to get any more money out it was pretty scared. I still owed the hostel for the previous two nights and had no money to find somewhere to sleep for this night and the current one was full. All i had to do was to call up halifax and ask them to unblock my card but when you've got no money making an international phone call is quite difficult.I most of the day wandering the streets aimlessly looking for inspiration but when i completely ran out of money for water or food i decided to head back to the hostel to conserve energy. I hoped that by 16:00 my parents would be up and could offer more advice. Fortunately the receptionist at the hostel said i could sleep at hers and she'd cook me dinner, oh yeah! Unfortunately for her i asked a friend to take some money out of the ATM and i'd bank transfer it to him, money issues sorted. I paid back to hostel and then went out to get some food and water, oh how i missed water. Later that evening i found out Susie and Tiggy were also in bangkok so i agreed to meet up with them. Susie gave me the address as "rambuttri" near Ko San Road which i assumed was the name of their hostel. I asked the taxi driver to take me there and was quite surprised when he knew the exact one seeing as there are so many hostels in bangkok. Turns out Rambuttri isn't the name of a hostel but the name of a road with about 50 hostels on it. I said just drop me off and i'll find it, with no idea how.
Just as i left the cab i found out why it was called the rainy season. It absolutely bucketed it down, i was getting soaked but more importantly my bag was. I dived into the nearest open place which happened to be a hostel and left my bags in there to go looking. I ran up and down the street in the pouring ran for 5-10 trying to find them to no avail. I went back to the hostel i'd left my bags at and went to use the computers in order to see if i'd missed something in the message or if she'd given me directions. Just as i sat down a voice behind me said "Ben Almond?!?!?!" I turned round and it was Tiggy. Of all the maybe 50 hostels on the road i accidently stumbled into the one they were staying at and even then it was only because we were both using the computer at the same time that we met. Crazy!
I checked in and the said hi to Susie who introduced me to their two canadian friends they had been travelling with for a month who were really really cool. The room however was not, it was dirt cheap for a reason. It was a tiny box room with the worst bed ever and really hot, might have to take the receptionist up on her original offer...
In the evening we went for some street food indian which was huge and really cheap before picking up some super cheap whisky from 7/11 and going back to the room, just like england! We consumed some beverages and then they said they would take me out in Ko San road as i hadn't been before. We went in to 1 or two clubs which were pretty empty and full of westerners, it was just like being back home. I told them about the club i went to the day before and they said it was worth a shot. It turned out to be awesome. We were the only westerners in the club and everyone was really friendly and loved us.
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