Lopburi and Phitsanulok

...after our experience Uli and I both were pretty tired and looked forward to a two-hour bus ride to Lopburi, having a seat and a nice air-conditioning. Yet not so...the bus indeed had an airconditioning as booked, but the seat turned out to remain a dream. The bus was full, and once again, it is not the European-American full, but the Thai-full. We were the last two to enter the bus and the last two who could possibly fit in the aisle...or so we thought. At the next station some other 10 people wanted to go to Lopburi and thinking they would not fit was naive. Some Thai woman came into the, yelled something we did not understand, and the people scewed up more and more so that the unbelievable became true: Everybody fitted in the bus. Lopburi itself turned out to be rather boring and the only amazing thing was that the city inhabits more monkeys than people. So we left early the next morning for Phitsanulok. The 6 hours ride was finally one on which had seats all the time. But that it would not become boring for us, the bus broke down and had to be repaired. Once arrived in the early evening we found a really nice hostel with a room on the forth floor, being the roof with a terrace and a view over the town. We had a look at two temples (Wats) and were amazed to see tons of Thais jogging along the riverside. Funny how they jogg...We stayed two nights before continuing to Sukothai, also being a former Thai capital.