July 3rd, 2019
July 2nd, 2019 still in Prachuap 😌
We definitely like it here. So much in fact we are staying two more days for a total of 5 nights! This town is right about my speed. The street along the beach that we are staying on at the Sun Beach Hotel is very quiet, the next street over has a little more hustle and bustle, then the third street over is clearly where the industry is. On our road, there’s some good food (discovered wind finally today…more on that later), I get my laundry done on the next street for 20 baht for a load, and there’s massage and some more food. Then everything else on the third street over including plenty of traffic, coffee stands and the 7-11.
There is a middle aged guy (like my age I guess) and his Asian wife and two kids staying here, we’ve seen the dad and the kids in the pool every day. He’s an American and they live in Sumatra. Anyway, they were packing up to move on to Bangkok. He told me they’d been here for 23 days. My first question was “where hand you been eating?” I ask this because I’ve been consistently underwhelmed by the food here. We walk all over the place and have yet to find a decent restaurant. (night one and two were market food nights!). He gave me some tips and then they went on their way. So at lunch time, we headed in the general direction he waved me towards. We found a quiet little place on our street that faced the ocean and had these fantastic plates of food!
Rejuvenated by this, we decided to walk off our food comas and headed back toward the monkey mountain. We did NOT make that climb again, but chose to walk around the base of the hill/mountain. Certainly had more monkey encounters and enjoyed the view.
Stopped periodically for water and Cafe Yen (thai iced coffee 😉) and were back at hotel by 3pm. We hop ourselves right into the pool although I was shade seeking at this point! I’ve had lots of fun in the sun by now and can benefit from a break!
Suppertime had us out in search of a couple highly rated places that Troy had seen on the internet. As we have learned here, “opening hours” are often either just a suggestion, a best case scenario or possibly just a complete and total guess. The wienershnitzel place just randomly closed on July 1 for 4 days, the pie place that was supposed to open “in July” was still shuttered and neither of the pizza places had any information or hours of operation on them 🙄. Good lord, how do these people make a living??? We settled on Lamoon. It was clean, modern and had a decent offering on the menu. So why not?? I ordered Tom Kha Gai and a thai pork omelette. Troy had cheese fries (worth a try??) and chicken with cashew nut. All absolutely delicious. Oh ya, a mango shake! Too delicious.
As is our custom now, after a meal we walk it off! So we carried on about town (AKA to the 7-11 for a magnum). Home by 8 and as always looking forward to another day in paradise tomorrow ☀!
