A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ayutthaya, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Suzukistorey titled "Heading North" Suzukistorey’s travel blog entry: "Trains & Monks We boarded the train first thing this morning sitting in third class. The start of the journey was pretty none descript but then the gentleman opposite tried to talk to us. Now he didn't know English and I don't know Thai, this as you could imagine made for a very interesting 1 1/2hr train journey. He was reading some book in Thai which from what I could gather was about boxing, we managed to say each others name and work out where one another was heading, I also worked out that he had two children and his wife was very fat! I then got my little phrase book out, well what a party we had from then on, we were like old friends with him teaching us how to say all the words in the book (if you miss pronounce some words you could be wishing them bad luck instead of saying something is beautiful!!!) and us trying to put it into sentences that went something like 'that's nice, how much ..... That's expensive' if you could class this as a sentence. I think they just love the fact that you are trying to speak Thai even though it's pronounced all wrong. We also worked out that it's a bit like French in the sense that they have male and female words. It was great speaking to this bloke (who was also called Chai) but he thought that after my few words in Thai I could speak Thai fluently and started speaking ...