Day 3 - Lazy Local Beach Day

I woke up at 1.45am and didn’t get back to sleep again until I nodded off for half an hour around 8.30am. We went back to C Smile for coffee and were tempted into ordering the French toast with honey. It arrived as a French toast ham sandwich dripping in honey. It tasted better than it looked or sounds, but it was disproportionately expensive compared to the Thai food they served at lunch.

We then sat near the far end of the sandy but narrow Noi Na Beach where we swam and sunbathed throughout the morning in the delightful 30 degree sunshine. We returned to C Smile for our lunch which consisted of several large bottles of Chang and a basket of crinkle cut chips, then it was back to the beach for the remainder of the afternoon. By 5pm the sun had disappeared behind the trees and we headed home.

Later after getting ready, we sat on our verandah, drank a couple of overly strong vodka tonics and then headed out for dinner. We literally got not much further than the bottom of our road when we spied a busy little shack restaurant called Samed Thanee which took our fancy. The staff didn’t speak particularly good English and I thought it was a miscommunication when he said they didn’t have any rice to accompany my chicken and cashew nuts that I ordered. I changed my order to chicken Pad Thai and Jackie ordered shrimp Pad Thai. We got served both Pad Thais AND the chicken and cashew nuts which were all gorgeous and cheap. It was our idea of the perfect Thai meal.

Song of the Day - Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups.Read more