Thai food and relaxation

After a short swim in our hotel pool and checking out, we went out for some authentic Thai lunch with amazing views of the turquoise sea. I had been eagerly waiting to try some pad krapao gai (stir-fried chicken with chilli and basil), a dish I often had at Thai restaurants in London. And that’s what we had, along with some tom yum soup. It was delicious and (unfortunately for Divya) spicy. We had told them to give us the chillies separately from the dish, but we learnt the hard way that that wasn’t how they did things there. They did give us the chillies separately, but that was in addition to the chillies already in the food, which they did not remove. We followed this up (at Divya’s insistence) with a Thai foot massage, which was a nice way to relax and beat the afternoon heat.Read more