Back to civilization

I was meant to go back to Thailand today, but sort of missed my bus...

Maybe I am just using delaying tactics, but is kind of a big step going back to good old "westernised" Thailand -
back to cities with modern hospitals (or hospitals at all for that matter), back to McDonalds, Burger King and KFC (although there was a KFC in Cambodia (Khmer fried Chicken) but it was closed down), back to food and drinks you recognize, back to semi-punctual public transport (that doesn't involve sitting in the back of a pick-up truck with 14 other people, a motorbike and a dozen chickens), back to paved roads, back to a country with coins (neither Laos, Vietnam nor Cambodia has coinage), back to a country where the highest denomination is $25 ($7 is the highest in Vietnam, $2.50 in Cambodia and a whacking $2 in Laos, although it was only 50cents up until last year...), back to a country with an Irish Embassy, back to semi-reality.

Can't stay here any longer though, there are 3 main beach huts and they play the same CDs everyday and the people don't have much new to tell. Feel a bit like I am on the magic roundabout, there is even a bald Iranian guy who like Zeebedee, bounces around dancing from dawn till dusk. Must be the sun.