Well that's what we felt like today. We're just a couple of hicks from good ol' Cha Am 🤣
The bed we slept on last night was incredibly good and we got a solid 9-10 hours rest, which is almost unheard of for us both. We went down to the dining room for breakfast at ~08:30 and were met by the nicest crew. The total opposite to the surly unhelpful reception staff.
This is the young lady that made our breakfast more pleasant that it would otherwise have been.
A real sweetheart
And this is what she made for us to say thank you for being nice to her.
I think some of the people that stay there, mainly from the "new money economies" to the west and north of Thailand can be quite rude and don't treat the staff with any respect.
Although the kitchen and it's wait staff were very nice the place really needed a good clean.
I think the windows had last had a good clean around the turn of the century.
This is the sign on the door to the bathroom in our room.
I think they were exaggerating as to how much force is required to open the door.
These are random pics taken along the way home to Cha Am
Out friend Felicia asked us to take pics of motorbikes carrying odd loads but that's not really done here in Thailand, that we've seen, It seems to be more of a thing in Vietnam.
This guy with his assortment of plastic bags all over the bike, each carrying a little bit of something, did look rather odd and that dog staring at the bike made it picture worthy.
I've commented a couple of times in this blog about how the Thai drive and ride and their road toll. As we neared Cha Am I saw this girl just ahead of us doing ~90kph
We got up next to her and she was clutching her mobile phone with her right hand.
If you're a bike rider you will understand how difficult that would make riding and controlling the bike. Also, I know that the locals always look far younger than they are, but even taking that into account I'm thinking this young girl was way way too young to lose her life because of not wearing a helmet, and the majority of road fatalities here are due that exact reason.
It's pretty hard to enforce the helmet laws, which do exist, when the law enforcement officer put their helmets on just for show. This police officer, although wearing his helmet, had not buckled up his chin strap.
We got home around midday and settled in to our normal Wednesday routine, Tis worked online and I worked on my blog and photos. Being a Wednesday we looked forward to going to the night market, especially as Lee was here.
We walked up at ~6pm and found it surprisingly quiet. We're not sure why it was as quiet as it was but we grateful nonetheless. It was great not to have to push through a hot sweaty mass of human bodies to get to anything and everything.
Cockroaches
Coconut worms
Both were quite nice but the experience is as overrated as the perceived "gross-ness"
No they don't taste like chicken but they are a little, and I stress "little", crunchy with a nutty taste.
Until they come down in cost, which is currently, buy my very rough estimate ~AUD 20/kg, we may as well keep eating chicken or pork.
Little pork dim sum
Tiz, enjoying her dim sum
This is our third week in a row that we've been to the market and tonight it had 25% of the usual crowd, which made it 250% more enjoyable to get around and see things.
Well, that's it for today.
Tomorrow life is back to normal, in the sleepy hollow we have come to love called Cha Am.
Thanks for dropping in and we hope to see you tomorrow.
The coconut worms look good! I think you will avoid Bangkok unless you really need to go there. I feel the same way about going into Melbourne!
ReplyDeleteThe coconut worms were OK, but not as juicy or tasty as the silkworms.
ReplyDeleteWe'll need to go back to Bangkok, for various reasons , including to vote in the upcoming federal election.
We also want to eat at Bo.Lan
( http://www.bolan.co.th/2014/en/OurStory/Philosophy )
I understand more and more as time goes on your reticence to go to Melbourne but I think I will always "need" it closer at hand than you ever would.
You've been living in the sticks for so long you may as well consider yourself a bushie ��
Also Bangkok has 10.5 million people in 1,569 km² and Melbourne has 4.8 million people in 9,990 km².
That would mean that every person in Bangkok has 149 m² each where as in Melbourne we have 2081 m² each.
It's a different mindset here. I may have said it before, possibly about Tokyo, or Osaka, but this place reminds me of Bladerunner's Los Angeles, which is set in 2019, hard to believe, isn't it?
Bangkok's density, sea of alien cultures, dampness, street food and general weirdness all contribute. All it needs are some flying cars and some replicants.
Bugs bugs bugs. For that place to be Blade Runner it's going to need to be a lot colder, wetter and have crossings that say "don't walk, don't walk, don't walk"
ReplyDeleteI don't think that the original Bladerunner movie was set in a cold climate, after all it was Los Angeles.
DeleteYou might be thinking of the sequel.
As far as "wet" goes, just because it doesn't rain doesn't mean you're not wet. I change clothes 2 or 3 times every day, just from the sweat soaking my clothes, and I don't consider myself to be a heavy perspirer.
Also, they do have crossing with red lights but Thais treat them as curious decorations.
I'm not kidding!