Part 4
I’d noticed a few pretty fishing villages on my outward journey. One of these was just as we left Wat Samut Kodom. I decided to stop and take a few snaps.
It was quite funny; these fishing boats were advertised as a transportation service. When you look at the first boat, I think Thailand have at last acquired their first submarine.
Transportation? No thank you.
As usual, my wife’s stomach started rumbling towards midday. There was a nice (amongst many not so very nice) restaurant at Puk Tien that we’ve used many times in the past. The restaurant was tried and tested, so off we went.
As I turned left into Puk Tien, I should have guessed something had happened because yet another road was blocked. However, this time there was a diversion that took us past the Police Forensic Headquarters, which was a hive of activity. After that it was dirt track, which the truck laughs at.
I got to the seafront road, and stopped right outside the restaurant (never been able to do that before). It was dead, and there was tape blocking access. It actually resembled a training exercise for the Police Forensic Headquarters. Another victim of Covid I presume. I went inside anyway to take a couple of photos of the Yak for my cousin, Carole who once bad mouthed the Yak and paid the penalty (that is another story, which I won’t go into). The tide was in, so it looked very nice.
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I found a delightful little restaurant not too far from Puk Tien to stop my wife’s stomach rumbling. Unusual for Thailand, but full of Thai antiques. The food was quite good as well – so good, we decided to go back for evening food before we went home.
We then returned to the hotel, which we had left to let the maid make up the room. When we got back, there were 2 bottles of water, 2 clean towels and a toilet roll outside of the room. The maid (we saw them before we left, and there were 5 of them) had not cleaned the room.
We did a bit of chilling at the hotel, showered, and then drove into Cha-Am for an early evening meal. Our timing is awful coming to Cha-Am this week as it is the Crab and Squid festival, so the town is heaving.
We got to Cha-Am early enough to beat the crowds, and went to a recommended restaurant, Aroy. A lovely restaurant with a very extensive menu, and many more antiques on display. Prices were very reasonable as well. I had a soup starter followed by (NZ) steak, my wife had 2 Isaan dishes, we had a fruit smoothie each plus a Sprite and a bottle of water. Cost was just 725฿.
When we got back to the hotel, the restaurant area was donned in coloured lights, and there was some sort of party going on. I’m not sure if it was a private party, but it was karaoke. There’s one thing worse than Thai music, somebody singing to Thai music very badly. We did discus going across to see what was going on, but both decided against it with absolutely no hesitation. Fair play though, it all stopped dead on 22:00hrs. Hmmmm………. that was a lie, it kicked off again 15 minutes later, and finally finished on the stroke of midnight.
...................../to be continued
