Things I Learned - Volume 3

• Flapping poncho sleeves make it very difficult to see anything in your mirrors
• A lychee can be worse than a grapefruit for squirting you in the eye
• Tesco kitchen cleaner spray also works as a highly effective, instant-action ant-killer
• It is a good idea to check your bike helmet for creepy-crawlies before you put it on your head
• Surest way to get the rain to stop: get all togged up in your rain gear. Of course, the inverse is also true!
• There is an order to putting on aforementioned gear: rucksack first; then poncho; then helmet. This is not a good point to discover that you have not unlocked the gate yet and your keys are in the rucksack...
• If you are not used to drinking tea, eating Burmese tea-leaf salad can have the effect of keeping you awake at night!
• Soybean cooking oil is almost as good as WD40 on a stiff padlock
• If you want to go to the toilet when the bus stops at Tak, you have to be QUICK (and have your 3 Baht ready)
• Whichever door you enter a temple by, you have to go out by the same one because that's where your shoes are
• Spaghetti cooked in a rice cooker actually don't turn out too badly :-)