26/08/2026
... and just to prove I am eating local food at well as grilled cheese and ham sandwiches.
Tonight's dinner, vegetable spring rolls followed by
G*i Phad Med Ma Muang (Stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts and dried chili) with steamed rice.
26/08/2026
It's got to that stage of the holiday where I'm getting reminders about pickup arrangements and flight check-ins.
Whilst I will be sad in many ways to be going home, there are a few of things I'm looking forward to, mainly...
1) A decent mug of tea
2) Seeing the felines
3) Not constantly smelling of mosquito repellent
4) being able to flush toilet paper down the loo instead of co-inhabiting with a bin full of bog roll!
On a semi-related note, why does the whole world outside of Europe struggle with the concept of cheese actually tasting of something? The only time I have ever had cheese outside of Europe that wasn't utterly bland was when we tried camel cheese in Egypt. That being said I could get used to spicy tomato ketchup π
26/08/2026
Was supposed to go on a waterfall trip today, but it got cancelled as the other people booked on cancelled due to sickness, so today is another day of doing as little as possible.
It's been raining upto about 10 minutes ago, but have now ventured outside.
There is a very bright blue bird in the tree behind me, who is being very opinionated π
26/08/2026
RIP Dolly - truly one of the greats
25/08/2026
It's lucky I was brought up in a fishing town, and am well versed with parting prawns from the company of their shells π
25/08/2026
Plan for today... do as little as possible...
Although given it's already 31Β° at 9am I'm not sure how long I'm going to last outside π
24/08/2026
Asked for a coconut juice off the fruit juice menu as a drink with my evening meal... just got presented with this π
24/08/2026
TOTAL FITNESS CLASS UPDATE
Body Balance on Wednesday evening will now be Yoga covered by Dominika instead of Body Balance with Debbie
24/08/2026
And have arrived... finally a hotel with decent sized mugs π
24/08/2026
... and I'm on the road to Hua Hin. Could take a while to escape the city traffic though π