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Thailand 2024
  • Claude Lester
  • Sarah Hand
  • Claude Lester
  • Sarah Hand

Thailand 2024

Un’avventura di 13 giorni di Claude & Sarah Leggi altro
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  • Inizio del viaggio
    9 febbraio 2024
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    Who needs an electrician?
    Sarah was wearing a dress so for the foot massage the nice man put what looked like a pair of his shScreaming squid!22

    Shopping day

    11 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 29 °C

    A rather fine day at the market including an amazing 30 mins foot massage (which included hips & thighs 😲), street food and a lot of shopping...

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    Lovely thai dinner at I am aroi soi 11

    11 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 27 °C

    Simple straight forward pad Thai style prawn noodles, stir fried greens with garlic & oyster sauce, and green papaya salad. Nearly £20 including a large beer & a stonkingly strong g&t for Sarah.
    Followed by cocktails in a live music covers band doing requests & people watching. Bryan Adams Summer of 69 followed by Pink Floyd's Another brick in the wall & Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water and all accompanied by a female singer who mostly made sounds like aggressive hiccups. Also street vendors selling dildos, vibrators & strap-ons and one old lady with teddy bears nearly the same size as her!    Leggi altro

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    Another cracking day

    12 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 29 °C

    Early ish start to meet our tour for Maeklong Railway market & Floating market . The guide had tryed to stress the importance of avoiding being run over by the train as it pulls into station while stallholders move their produce. So we were feeling a little anxious about It was so crowded and we were walking along in-between narrow gauge rails on loose stones trying to avoid turning an ankle, being pushed over by yet another reversing Insta-moment cameraman or walking into the props for the stall tarps!!!
    But we were reassuringly reunited with our guy "A" and as he so accurately described it his "cock stick" aloft 🤣    Leggi altro

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    Part 2 of cracking day 3

    12 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 28 °C

    After we successfully navigated that (& I seemed to have bought more clothes) it was off to the floating market where we boarded our vessel for the adventure. I nearly sank it as I landed on my seat rather abruptly. Then it was to sample the wares. Some really special items on offer as you can see..😲😜
    And some impressive customised out board motors!!!
    We were dropped off at a "shopping centre" which apparently had bugs brands for sake somewhere but we enjoyed the madness of the ground floor stalls & eateries. Spit roast alligator was a new sight for me! Then off to find ourselves the ferry across the Chao Phraya river to get the SkyTrain & metro to our home neighbourhood of Nana. Ended the day with another foot massage - this rather surprisingly included my eyebrows neck scalp & arms!    Leggi altro

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    None too shabby

    13 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

    So far the hotel has exceeded expectations. Beautiful rooms set in a conservation area. What’s not to like? Looking forward to spotting the wildlife.

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    All change...

    14 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Early night last night - much needed. Then we had to move room this morning and even tho it's a downgrade back to what we paid for it's still lovely. Went to the gym for an hour then to the beach...there was a little drizzle briefly & a lovely afternoon of sun & sea & kingfishers & hanging parrots...before dinner in the village followed by a couple of cocktailsLeggi altro

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    James Bond Island & floating village

    17 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Our tour guide today was Moo which means pig as he was apparently a big boy as a child, although he's very skinny now. We went to Khao Phing Kan aka the James Bond island from The Man with the Golden Gun. It's in Phangnga National park. And Phangnga is the floating village created on the east side of one of the limestone rock formations 300 years ago by Muslims who came by sea from Indonesia. It has it's own floating football pitch!.We had a lovely if alcohol free lunch. Most of our group were German and only the 2 young couples were even faintly pleasant or talked to anyone else/helped people in and out of the boat. Kayaking through the caves (as misbehaving passengers only) was amazing.Leggi altro

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    Monitor Lizards, hermit crabs and more!

    18 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ 🌙 26 °C

    A little bit of wildlife from last nights night walk and around the spa pool. Hermit crabs, water monitor lizard and we saw 3 slow loris in the trees. Still amazed at how wonderful our hotel is.

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    Ploysuay

    19–23 feb 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

    Our lovely elephant Ploysuay and we learnt how to get her to move back: Toy! Quite useful as she was reversing me into the next elephant ! After we watched her have her health check after a night in the jungle, we fed her bananas first then sugar cane (which acts as a toothbrush but is their favourite so they have to eat all their bananas first!) Then it was into the pool for a good old scrub 😍
    There was an unfortunate moment when one of the keepers had to come in with a large net to collect " chocolate" 🤣
    Sadly 3 of the elephants are not owned by the park but were sent there during COVID & even more sadly they may be taken away again by the owners. One of the elephants lost a calf recently and has adopted the youngest elephant here but if the owners reclaim them they will be separated 😭😭😭    Leggi altro

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    Pool at breakfast
    Another pool we never got to tryThe view onto our first nights private access poolOur hotel - hidden by the original tall trees & jungleBy contrast - next door: they flatten the plot, build, then bring in a few fully grown palmsLunch at Nana's

    Last day 😭

    20 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    Last day in Thailand - no gym as Sarah got trollied last night. 🤣 Can't remember what my excuse was 🤷🏼‍♀️
    Swimming, sunning and lunch at Nana's (next door on the beach)

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    Ice cream rolls - we didn't try one but watched them being madeMy fave cocktails - heatwave was the best!Useful phrases in the bar...

    Last night in Thailand

    20 febbraio 2024, Tailandia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Worst meal so far but hey ho lovely waiter from Myanmar who doesn't speak Thai & they served us a nice bottle of cold Aussie white wine with some ice & couple of sodas ...a bit of random window shopping and we found the equal opportunity matching ashtray to the one at the floating market and Sarah tried to take her tie-dye obsession to new limits but was vetoed by me (& Chris at home)
    Then on to our fave bar in the village - lovely cocktails, then Sarah wanted another & who was I to say no?
    Then we headed back to hotel but stopped at a other bar which was always busy. Rock music sound track and the first seriously strong cocktails. A fellow limped over to us and turned out to be the owner, quite disabled but very enabled & proud of his bar. Sarah chose an ice bear which obvs appealed to me till I saw the 6 alcoholic ingredients & no mention of a mixer....I took a safter option of a Pina colada. Another round at Sarah's suggestion & I then carried her back to hotel room where we talked bollocks till about 2am.
    Another lovely lovely day in paradise....    Leggi altro

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    Fine del viaggio
    21 febbraio 2024