Trying to get out the door
21 kwietnia 2019, Australia ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Despite the well established 4am wakeup call Chatty Kathy here got us into bed at 1.30am after an away game win and some ill advised uber eats. I had the morning scheduled to the minute but one of us Czytaj więcej
Sneaky move pays off
21 kwietnia 2019, Australia ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Richard gambled on this seat allocation for MEL-SING and gosh it's worked out a treat. 👌
Big time foreshadowing
21 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
Now, I'm no electrician, but if I need medical assistance here, 100 bucks says my last words before it are 'that wiring looks dicey' because MATE.
She's done it y'all.
21 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
She's found a banger sino-portugese terrace apartment with a record player.
Old Town Sunday market
21 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
100m from our place. Rich wasn't having a bar of it. I left him in a cocktail bar and noodled around solo.
As the kid behind me exclaimed 47 times
21 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
... "Islands! We're here!"
Factor in half an hour faffing around at the airport with 28Degrees' useless user interfaces to make sure our credit cards weren't cancelled the minute we used them, and Czytaj więcej
This place tho
22 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
I am 👋LEANING👏IN👏
Waiting for rich so we can go have a lil walk around (I introduced that quite casually for someone who's literally plotted it on google maps but sure) then get a massage. I Czytaj więcej
First massage
22 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
30 minute foot reflexology then 60 minute full body Thai massage, where got essentially harassed with elbows and for some brief yet exciting spells, had my lovely lady standing and crawling on me. The Czytaj więcej
Exploring old Phuket Town
22 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Lunch and a wander after massages, this place is so cute. Richard keen to visit Patong tonight so I'm making the most of somewhere relatively quiet...im willing to be proven wrong but my sense is that Czytaj więcej
Bangla Road as expected
22 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Mental, redeemed in a small way only by the sheer enthusiasm and vision of this architect, and a stumble around a mirror maze in which I only faceplanted once.
Here be dragons
23 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Spent our last morning in Phuket Old Town before heading up to Khao Lak having breakfast at Bookhemian (book shop cafe, clever sliding tables), and perfecting the 'look here' picture pose at the Czytaj więcej
Cat Cafes are our greatest invention
23 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Hnnngghgghgghh god I love cat cafes. The lil ginger boy was the smooshiest and I love him and I named him Archie and tbh probably over-bonded. I asked him if he knew B but got no recognition out of Czytaj więcej
'The Haven' is pretty accurate
23 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
What's UP we're here for the next 8 nights, here are the two water bits I've been in so far - one from our balcony, one a 50m walk away.
First seaside sunset
23 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
I'm so relaxed I could melt.
My schedule says relax
24 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
So we will. We got chatting to a guy from Melbourne (the first and last bit of chatting I hope) last night who has been here before and offered the incredibly useful tip that the body of water between Czytaj więcej
Papaya salad
24 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
We walked up the beach for lunch, as it seems a few Australians have done before us, from the amount of times the guy at the restaurant asked if we were enjoying our 'bonza tucker' and 'bloody cold Czytaj więcej
Market night
24 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
We used old mate's trick to walk to Bang Niang Market for dinner, finding this VERY CLEVER BOI on the way. 😻
Babies
25 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
A basket of littluns at dinner!
Tour de Khao Lak
27 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
The last few days have been spent doing sweet bugger all, reading and swimming, and a moderately disastrous paddle around in sea kayaks which resulted in what Rich insists on calling SunglassesGate. Czytaj więcej
Pam is a legend
27 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
Best meal we have had, amazing hospitality, and the pick up, in a typical Ute bench arrangement, was so convenient. I especially loved her print out about her garden and dogs, pictured below.
We had Czytaj więcej
Puppers
28 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Another bike trip today as it's overcast and relatively cool - met some lovely doggos at lunch and explored another sobering reminder of the incredible damage sustained by this area and people in the Czytaj więcej
Celebrity sighting!
29 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Ceiling kitty made his triumphant return and even a walk around his adoring public!
It's not easy bein cheesy
30 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Next door checked out today and gave us some beer and their floaties. We are nailing it.
Last full day today as we check out tomorrow, relaxing here for now and will head to a fancy beach club in the Czytaj więcej
A soggy walk
30 kwietnia 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
We saved visiting the fancy beach club, KOKULO, until the last full day, which, hilariously, coincided with an absolutely torrential downpour which caused a bit of flash flooding and made our decision Czytaj więcej
Checking out
1 maja 2019, Tajlandia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
I'll miss you, favourite pastries! Until we meet again!
PodróżnikHow surprising, not! We guessed exactly how it would all go after that big win!