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TravBuddy.com: emlu's Emlu goes to Thailand travel blog</title>
<copyright>Copyright 2005 TravBuddy LLC</copyright>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/blogs/13201</link>
<description>Emma is a sexy flighty architect.
Lucy is a hilarious eccentric linguist.

They are going to Thailand! And Cambodia. And Vietnam!</description>
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<title>Summary</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Summary-23</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:55:48 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Nottingham-travel-guide-364810">Nottingham, England</a>, Sep 20, 2007</p>
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We spent several hours in Charing Cross A&amp;amp;E, while Emma explained
about rabies vaccines to the nurse. Eventually, they found one dose in
the bo&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>And now it&apos;s today</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:36:17 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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It&apos;s 2.31am.We caught our flight from Krabi with no problems but many a crossed finger. Now we&apos;re lurking around Bangkok in the small hours of the mo&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>More boats</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:02:15 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Krabi-travel-guide-631687">Krabi, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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We moved from Hat Rin to Krabi, which is on the mainland but on the other side. We caught another ferry/bus combination, which ended up taking much l&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Whereas man overvalues everything</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:30:29 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Phuket-travel-guide-631910">Phuket, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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To get to Phuket, we had to get another speedboat. This time, people were screaming. Every second person was sick. The sea was so rough that I genuin&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Closer to The Beach</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Closer-Beach-18</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:56:54 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Koh-Phangan-travel-guide-1308759">Koh Phangan, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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We moved from Ko Samui to Ko Phangan. Ko Phangan is where your friends who like trance music go to dance in the sand at Full Moon Parties. We&apos;d just &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>The sea, which misuses nothing because it values nothing</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/sea-which-misuses-nothing-because-17</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:42:08 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Koh-Samui-travel-guide-1313257">Koh Samui, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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I now firmly believe that each person has a set number of boat rides which they can go on in their lifetime, before they overfill their quota and fac&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>The Beach</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:13:54 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Phi-Phi-travel-guide-1313677">Phi Phi, Thailand</a>, Sep 17, 2007</p>
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Ko Phi Phi is actually two islands, Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Lei. Don is the main one, where everyone stays. To get there, we got on a speedboat. It w&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>We didn&apos;t want to be here again</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/didnt-want-be-here-again-16</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:26:41 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Sep 13, 2007</p>
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but we missed out stop.\
We left again immediately, on a third-class sleeper to Surat Thani, gateway to the beaches and islands of Thailand.
Note: &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Lopburi is famous for being full of monkeys</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Lopburi-famous-being-full-monkeys-14</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:20:41 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Lopburi-travel-guide-1308342">Lopburi, Thailand</a>, Sep 07, 2007</p>
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and with good reason.It is full of monkeys. For me, it was too many monkeys. I was scared that at any moment they might form an impromptu monkey army&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Bridging the River Kwai</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Bridging-River-Kwai-15</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:36:53 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Kanchanaburi-travel-guide-631612">Kanchanaburi, Thailand</a>, Sep 07, 2007</p>
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We came from Lopburi to Kanchanaburi, a nightmare west-bound journey which seemed fitting, somehow. We got here at 4pm, having left Lopburi at 9.30am&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>In which I run away to join the circus.</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/which-run-away-join-circus-13</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:17:43 PST</pubDate>
<description>In which I run away to join the circus.</description>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Lampang-travel-guide-631709">Lampang, Thailand</a>, Sep 07, 2007</p>
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Seriously guys. When I was a tiny girl, I had a Famous Five video in which the Five met a circus boy who was washing an elephant in an English stream&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Nighttime</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:09:48 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Chiang-Mai-travel-guide-631369">Chiang Mai, Thailand</a>, Sep 07, 2007</p>
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Thailand has some things which I find strange and amazing. Their sleeper trains are one.We went to sleep in noisy, smelly Bangkok, and ten hours and &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Home (sort of)</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Home-sort-of-11</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:25:45 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Sep 03, 2007</p>
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So now, we&apos;re back in Bangkok. We spent most of yesterday afternoon in MBK shopping centre, stocking up on things we couldn&apos;t find in Cambodia but wh&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Borders</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:17:49 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Trat-travel-guide-632095">Trat, Thailand</a>, Sep 03, 2007</p>
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We spent six hours in Koh Krong, five of them asleep. We hired bikes and got to the border with Thailand by 8am, opening time. 
I would strongly adv&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Travelling without moving</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:11:02 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Kampot-travel-guide-569900">Kampot, Cambodia</a>, Sep 03, 2007</p>
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The hotel on the riverfront in Phnom Penh turned out to be run by Sam from Cheers, which explained the low-level prostitution. We got to Kampot from &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Where have I got to?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:31:38 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Phnom-Penh-travel-guide-575214">Phnom Penh, Cambodia</a>, Aug 30, 2007</p>
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I forget. Neither Emma nor I can work out how long we&apos;ve been here. We&apos;re measuring out how long we have before we need to leave in terms of how many&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Khmer Rouge</title>
<link>http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/13201/Khmer-Rouge-6</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:54:15 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Battambang-travel-guide-1309554">Battambang, Cambodia</a>, Aug 27, 2007</p>
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Battambang was nearly as horrendous as Poi Pet.
But, everything was better when we hired two moto drivers. For $7 each, they showed us the sights of&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>The border</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:48 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Poipet-travel-guide-1311319">Poipet, Cambodia</a>, Aug 27, 2007</p>
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between Thailand and Cambodia is not a nice place. If hell turns out to exist, it will be this place.
Getting to Aranya Prathet, the nearest town to&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>For once the date is accurate</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:05:36 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Siem-Reap-travel-guide-1308824">Siem Reap, Cambodia</a>, Aug 27, 2007</p>
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We&apos;re still in Siem Reap!
We caught a 3 hour, $15 boat from Battambang to Siem Reap which eventually took 7 1/2 hours. At the port, the boat was swa&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Suk 11</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:21:45 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Bangkok-travel-guide-632148">Bangkok, Thailand</a>, Aug 23, 2007</p>
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We&apos;re here for one more. We&apos;ve met cheeky tuk-tuk drivers, been on&amp;nbsp;a boat, argued with a taxi driver, Emma got bitten by a rat, we visited Khao &amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>Abu Dhabi airport</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:13:05 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Abu-Dhabi-travel-guide-565681">Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates</a>, Aug 23, 2007</p>
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1. will sell you any pharmaceuticals you desire
2. is shaped like the inside of a mosaic mushroom
3. is located in a country whose non-air conditio&amp;hellip;</p>
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<title>In London,</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:59:23 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Islington-travel-guide-364107">Islington, England</a>, Aug 20, 2007</p>
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carrying more stuff than the stuff man, tired, waiting for Emma to get out of the shower and finish packing so we can get the tube! </p>
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<title>48 hours to go</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:07:34 PST</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://www.travbuddy.com/Nottingham-travel-guide-364810">Nottingham, England</a>, Aug 19, 2007</p>
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I am still in Nottingham, but getting closer to Adventure Time. My 100
litre rucksack is full, although full of what I can&apos;t ever really know.
I ca&amp;hellip;</p>
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