A bit confused, I arrived at the train station at 3am. It was already hot. Maybe it just never stopped to be hot in the end…

I sat down on a bench, not really sure about what I was thinking about when I took that cheap ticket to come here. I was a lonely girl with all her belongings with her in a place where she was not supposed to be. I didn’t felt really in danger as there is always policemen and monks around in a train station but… Rule number one, never stay too long around a train station at night, anywhere in the world. Ah nah, that’s rule number two sorry. The first one is: “Don’t come back with a child”.

I saw a guy who had exactly the same backpack as me and I didn’t need more at this moment to trust somebody. It appears that the guy was probably as confused as I was and didn’t booked any hotel in Ayutthaya for the next night.

We walked together to my hotel. It was 5 am then and we ended up sharing a double bed for half price. Rule number three, you can share a bedroom with a boy only if you met him at a train station during the night and if he is a French engaged-climber-postman guy. Ok, I admit that said like that, this story seems a bit strange but on the way,  I started to realise that it was more easy to talk and be friend with boys while traveling. I don’t want to generalised but a solo girl traveller will be happy to be on her own and after a while, she won’t suffer to wait or follow somebody and let down her plans. Also, I didn’t meet a lot of them yet in the end. I had a great connection with the ladies I interviewed and I would have loved to spend more time with all of them but they had plans or where not traveling for a long time like me. It is more common to see solo boys traveling in South East Asia for few month. Two girls traveling together will be “fusionnals” and won’t allow you a lot of place. You can have great fun with them but in the end you are the third one! I’ve been in this kind of position three years ago when I was traveling with Faustine. I know how it is and now I understand how it was for the other. Two boys traveling together will be maybe more open to “accept” a girl in their crew for few days. I don’t know, it’s maybe a story of balance or something… Traveling with a couple is another thing. I’ve had a super great connection with Thierry and Arnaud but for all the other cases, a couple traveling together will be most of the time stuck together and you don’t want to feel like the “single” girl following them. Promise, it’s a bit annoying after a bit when you feel like you are the extra piece.

Anyway! J-B was traveling in his own too so we passed the formalities quickly (remember what I was talking about in the last articles – first questions asked when you meet somebody) and we snored heavily until the sun was up in the sky.

We rented two bikes and searched for maybe one hour a place where we could have a decent breakfast. We were not really kean on eating meat and rice so we skipped really quickly the food market to a place which was serving ice cream. It looked like a great idea at the beginning but it was maybe not… The fake flavor strawberry on our toasts didn’t helped to calm our hunger.

Ayutthaya is the city of one hundred temples. But I’ve seen a lot of them already so J-B did. We followed the big highway for a bit and found the floating market. It looked like Disney Land. This city was the old capital of Thailand and I think it is the place where Thai people are going to relax for the week end. Not a lot of western tourists where here to be honest.
  

We continued for a bit in a big park and contemplated on the way the ruins of old temples and palaces… Before getting lost in the countryside!

A nice sunset on the river later at the hotel, I simply crashed to my bed, not entirely satisfied by the visit of the city but happy to have a new friend around!