None of the Lees had been able to read the sign-writing on the bus, not even Din, because it was in a thick childlike font, but it read: ‘Hippy Tours of Authentic Thailand’ with a Bangkok phone number and Internet contact details.
As far as the administration of a guest house was concerned, the Lees had no idea. They had not even decided on a firm price for a room, although the Australians had put ‘rooms from 500B inclusive of breakfast’
on the Internet, so they stuck with that. However, they didn’t know about booking them in or registering them with the local police, but then neither did the local constable either.
When Jim asked to sign the register, Din had to go find one of her old school textbooks, rip out the used pages and make one. She drew columns
