Day 6 - I Am a Poseur and I Don’t Care

We left our room around 9am and hiked back to our beach spot over 2 miles away. We spent the morning on the beach entertained by wives and girlfriends posing on the beach whilst their husbands and boyfriends photographed them for Instagram, TikTok or whatever.

One particular woman in her 30’s with a mop of white hair really did take the biscuit. She had her young daughter videoing her as she danced around the beach then stopping to review the content. The daughter eventually got fed up and refused to continue so the woman set her phone up on a stand and continued ‘creating content’.

We went to lunch at Jep’s Beach Bar, which seemed a little posher than Tok’s Little Hut Bar and was reflected in the prices, but not in the service. A large bottle of Chang cost 160THB, whereas next door at Tok’s the cost just 120THB. We ordered the Fried Spicy Pork Ball Salad and the Fried Vegetable Spring Rolls. The Pork Ball Salad arrived 1st and was just placed on the corner of our table without a word and with just a fork, no knife, napkins or condiments. They were very nice but could have done with a sauce. The Spring Rolls arrived with just a dribble of plum sauce, so we had to ask for more and we then were given a huge pot of the stuff.

We were just finishing up when I noticed that everyone else was drinking draft beer and all the parasols and signage were for Heineken. I picked up a menu and saw that the first page was advertising Heineken buy 1 get 1 free. I was kicking myself, so we ordered a 500ml glass of Heineken and 2 arrived for 190THB. Sadly we decided we actually much prefer Chang Beer. We left just as some morbidly obese bloke sat down in front of us and blocked out the sun.

After an afternoon on the beach we headed home and my stomach started to gurgle, probably from the spicy pork balls! Luckily my stomach had calmed down when we went out to eat that evening. We went to C Smile Restaurant, which had virtually all fish on the menu. There were only a couple of options available to me, so I ordered the stir fry chicken with black pepper and rice. Jackie ordered Spicy Salt and Pepper King Prawns.

Mine arrived first and it was sensational. As well as chicken the dish had enoki mushrooms with a gorgeous peppery sauce. Jackie was served up 6 enormous meaty prawns with a seriously spicy sauce, which was apparently also lovely. We both agreed that it was one of the best meals we had had in a very very long time.

We finished the evening off with a couple of Hong Thongs on our verandah.

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