Trying to get out the door
21 апреля 2019 г., Австралия ⋅ 🌙 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 usЧитать далее
Sneaky move pays off
21 апреля 2019 г., Австралия ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Richard gambled on this seat allocation for MEL-SING and gosh it's worked out a treat. 👌
ПутешественникFor the unsophisticated amount your followers, please explain MEL - SING......I see you have bags of spare room 😊 F
Big time foreshadowing
21 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌙 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 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌙 30 °C
She's found a banger sino-portugese terrace apartment with a record player.
Old Town Sunday market
21 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌙 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.
ПутешественникWe knew he wouldn’t dare try the street food.......where’s Maccas! 🙄
As the kid behind me exclaimed 47 times
21 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌙 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, andЧитать далее
This place tho
22 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☀️ 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. IЧитать далее
First massage
22 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☀️ 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. TheЧитать далее
Exploring old Phuket Town
22 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☀️ 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 thatЧитать далее
ПутешественникIsn't the heat actually atrocious. Also patong is an absolute zoo. Be prepared to pay coins to use the loos everywhere too. There is a huge air-conditioned indoor shopping mall around there somewhere though, cinema/food court/game arcade type deal.
Bangla Road as expected
22 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее
Cat Cafes are our greatest invention
23 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☀️ 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 ofЧитать далее
'The Haven' is pretty accurate
23 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
I'm so relaxed I could melt.
My schedule says relax
24 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 betweenЧитать далее
Papaya salad
24 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 coldЧитать далее
Market night
24 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
A basket of littluns at dinner!
Tour de Khao Lak
27 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌧 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.Читать далее
Pam is a legend
27 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌧 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 hadЧитать далее
ПутешественникI can’t quite focus on it on my phone, but is that saying 30° at the top of this post? 😳 F
Puppers
28 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
Celebrity sighting!
29 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Ceiling kitty made his triumphant return and even a walk around his adoring public!
It's not easy bein cheesy
30 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ 🌧 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 theЧитать далее
A soggy walk
30 апреля 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☁️ 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 decisionЧитать далее
Checking out
1 мая 2019 г., Таиланд ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
I'll miss you, favourite pastries! Until we meet again!
ПутешественникHow surprising, not! We guessed exactly how it would all go after that big win!