July 3rd, 2019
July 3rd, 2019
yikez! Not much to report today. Sleeping well! Eating well! Getting lots of walks! I get to FaceTime Jackie every morning over coffee with an exceptional view ❤
I suppose it is time to move on before i become a permanent fixture here in Prachuap. I had such a nice long conversation with Lek yesterday ( I hope I didn’t interfere with her work too much 😉). So get this! She’s 49, has 3 children, ages 21, 23 and 27. It is such a coincidence! She does however have 5 grandchildren. THAT I DO NOT!! We showed each other photos and of course oooh’d and ahhhh’d. She even made all the right noises when I showed her a picture of Nichol. 🤣🤣
Anyway, the show must go on! I’ve more adventures to have and if I don’t go now, I might not get to my sweet ChiangMai. We had the best of intentions to rent motorbikes today and sightsee a little. I even told my Mom this when we FaceTimed this morning, but now it’s honesty time. I did none of that….. I did take a load of laundry over to washer. And we went on a nice walk to the train station to scope out the plan for tomorrow. But otherwise it was a lazy day. We did discover that we could pay 15 baht for a train ride to Ban Krut, or we could pay 300 baht. Soooooo, I’m up for the 15 baht adventure just to see the difference. We did the 300 baht ride to get from Hua Hin to Prachuap. 15 baht is 50 cents vs 300 baht ($10). I get it will be ‘no frills’ but it’s 90 minutes. Pray for me people, pray for us! The downside (or one of the downsides🤣🤣) is that we can not buy the train tickets in advance. So we are going to roll the dice and just show up at 1pm tomorrow and hope we get on. Worst case, we don’t get on and then either catch some later train or find a car and driver! (Which will definitely cost more than both the train options added together).
On the way back from train station, we stopped at the 7-11. Presumably for water, but a sale rack caught our eye. We joke a lot about the peculiar flavours of potato chips here including some corn and rice products (think crisps, bugles, puffed rings, “waffle” style crunchy things). We were feeling snacky so picked up the following:
I am going to rank them in the following order. #1 Sweet basil, #2 Icy lemon #99 Melon Bingau. (Don’t Judge – we are trying new things!!) We also stopped at the cookie lady that we saw on day #1 here and got more of my favourite pineapple jam cookies and peanuts.
We will probably go to LaMoon again tonight and then rest up for our big journey tomorrow. The new hotel is supposed to pick us up at the train station so that is a nice touch. After 10 years coming here, I’ve finally figured out this idea of contacting the hotel and asking for a ride!
