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Solo Travelling - Week 1 - Bangkok and Sukhothai

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  ·          Bangkok view from Golden Mountain ·         Day 0 ·         After all the many and lovely goodbyes, I was finally off, waving my last one to a tearful mother as I strode into the next chapter of my life as you do through airport security. As I am a nervous flier the part of my trip that I was most worried about was in fact the next 15 hours I was about to spend cruising at 30,000 feet. Fortunately, my flights were really comfortable (living it up on Emirates) and my flight anxiety turned to OMG I’m actually doing this anxiety very quickly. ·         Day 1 ·         Arriving in Bangkok was an intense first encounter to Thailand, the heat, the smells, the vibrancy and size of the city was all quite overwhelming never mind the horrific feeling of it being 5am my time with little sleep on the plane and it being 1pm ...