It seems that if we're in Cha Am on a Tuesday we won't be doing a lot.
That works for me, and I don't hear Tiz complaining either.
This road was so quiet it was hard to believe we were in Cha Am
This is the entrance to a training camp for the
Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Species.
I guess they are similar to our Parks Victoria, but I hope they are far more effective.
This an area called an "Urban Forest" which is open to the public,
but also used by the training camp
Along the same road we came across this place.
It's called Inn Box and it's constructed with shipping containers,
a medium which I am very interested in and have some experience with.
A room, with a double bed and all the amenities you need for a night, cost AUD 30.
Damn great value!
Tiz outside the restaurant brushing up on her Thai, via her phones translator,
so she could ask if they were open for dinner.
As always she got the job done with "flying colours"!
By about 9:30am we had been to the village and were headed home.
The northern end of Cha am was very quiet.
As we got closer to the centre of town the tourist buses arrived.
I had to take a picture of this one as it's external rear vision mirrors looked like
parts of the alien from the movie of the same name
Further on down the road I came across this neat little scooter,
complete with upside down forks.
Then as we headed south past the town centre the crowds thinned out again.
When we got home, drenched in perspiration, our friend that lives here contacted us asking how we were handling the heat. This weather with it's constant 35-37℃ is abnormal and knocking even the locals about.
I jokingly told Tiz to say "You expats, and also the locals, are a bunch of pussies. We're waiting for it get really hot, like our summers at home!"
We're having pre-dinner drinks with him later tonight so I hope he can take a joke.
Come dinner time we were going to go to a Tex Mex place (I can just hear someone out there saying "Why the heck would you go to a Tex Mex place in Thailand?" to which I would answer "'Cos someone we know said it was good AND why not?!") just down the road which had been recommended but one we got there we discovered it was closed for this week. Aroy, just over the road was open, and we had had a good meal there before, so it got the nod.
Prawn spring rolls for starters were very tasty
Top left was pork mince and fried basil, top right deep fired pork crackling and vegies
bottom left was (very) spicy beef and bottom right was squid and vegies.
All four dishes were superb.
The bill for the entire meal and drinks for three people came to AUD 42.70
Cheap!
We then went to Chang's birthday party at the Cha Cha Bar in Soi Bus Station.
Chang is "one of the boys" and runs a favoured taxi service here in Cha Am.
Ian, Tiz, Greg and Lee on their way to having far more drinks than planned
at the beginning of the night.
At 10:30 we wisely decided to head off home and go to bed,
which we did.
Luv yez all
Cheers, Marino & Tiz
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