Ahh… go and stay in a 3rd world country for a month, and you’ll get sick at least once - it’s almost guaranteed.

Generally people will catch “travellers diarrhoea” within a week or two of arriving in such a country, and it’s pretty easily fixed with a course of antibiotics, or just rest and good hydration. Clearly what you eat and drink will effect whether you get this, or how badly.

I think Koh Chang made us a little bit blase about such things, all the food on the island seemed to be of very high quality, the rest of Thailand however, not so much - especially in the more remote areas. So, we both ended up waking up in ayutthaya yesterday morning feeling like absolute hell. Huge thanks to the owner of the guesthouse where we were staying, she came out with sachets of rehydration salts and the like, turns out she was a Medical Scientist, or something similar at some point.

We managed to get on the train however, and back to Bangkok, where we taxied back to Kaosan road, and found a room at the D&D Inn. Thankfully this room turned out to be fabulous, nice comfortable bed, hot shower and a (shock!) western toilet. The relief to not have to squat to go to the bathroom was great

We ended up spending all of the rest of the day in bed, and woke up this morning feeling a heap better. Hopefully things will continue improving over the next day or two.