...can be long, so long...

- January 10 : When it comes midnight after watching a movie I try to get some sleep while my neighbors - I do not know then that they took a sleeping pill - are sleeping like dormice. By times of one or two hours, I managed to sleep about 5 hours in all.

I begin to look bad with an eye all red blood that was done during my time at Roissy airport (or with the TGV air conditioning system). I finished the flight watching another film in english and trying to sleep a bit. Landing at 15:45 local time, a good 25 minute wait at immigration, foreign exchange, and presto I jump into the new express train from the airport to downtown (kind of underground air traveling at 120 km / h between stations).

I catch a subway whose terminus is Huala Lampong, train station, and once there, a bit too late to catch the 18:35 train, I get information on the following, and it is full till 22h. So I have a ticket for a journey of 14:30 hours long, sleeping on a seat in 2nd class. To give me courage I have my first Thai meal in the canteen of the station, no more Pad Thai but a equivalent with rice and chicken skewers that I took a small stores.

I rehydrated a bit too, because since the arrival at the airport I was very hot (it is 28 ° C) and I'll go sitting like all those waiting in the train station, sitting on the ground, enjoy the coolness brought by the night here. Once on the train I begin, after my longest ever flight (11h), my train ride the longest : departure 10 pm arrival the next day at 2 pm.

I have an English neighbor with whom I discuss a bit and give her some advice and the address of the Guesthouse wich I booked in Chiang Mai, if she wants to stay there.

January 11 : Of course despite the jetlag and five hours of sleep the night before, I can only sleep a couple of hours (it must be said that the lights stay on and train really slap on track and horehound a little). Then at 3 am, I begin watching a movie, I'll sleep better tomorrow ... or not. In fact I sleep a little better on the morning from 5am to 8am.

After a hearty breakfast with soup and rice and pork and fresh pineapple, I'm well and I hold myself to make micro-naps of several minutes, uncontrolled, on digestion. That's fair and then it lets me not languish too much because of the one hour delay that has the train.

Finally my neighbor Emma booked in Yourhouse Guesthouse and we took a tuk-tuk together. After setting our rooms, and the time they are finished cleaning, we will eat something in the main street. Emma was very hungry because she did not eat on the train just cookies and we devour our soups and drink at the end of this train ride (the longest since I travel (16 hours long)), a good Chang beer.

After that a well-deserved nap is needed (I needed it I think) : 3 hour nap in the afternoon, it recharges the batteries. Now that I'm clean I'll go get a massage.

                                           

9:20 p.m., I just finished an hour Thai massage, it's relaxing really, and I go an have soup now ... A Tomyama shrimp, spicy, and some spring rolls. At the same time I take this opportunity to update my blog, and I returned to the guesthouse and drags until 2am to watch movies, because I could not sleep.