What a difference a day makes

Our second day started off pretty useless. We meant to get up early but ended up heading to Grand Palace in the scorching heat and just as a gazillion tourists arrived so left it and returned to KSR to have a drink by the pool.



After nagging a cabby to put his meter on we enjoyed a 30minute air conditioned ride to the bar to meet Brucey (a mate from Wildscreen) which was 120baht - that's about £2.20 - Bristol public transport is going to drive me mental when I get home.
We enjoyed some strange looking drinks and had a very appropriately British chat about the weather and local politics. We picked up some great tips before heading to meet Perran's mum's Uni friend, Jada.What more could you want?

Jada's was amazing! We had fresh coconut juice (with the flesh floating in it) on their terrace before heading inside to be served a meal by their cook - could get used to that! They'd prepared some local dishes which aren't too spicy so that we could find out what we liked - bless! Basil chicken, papaya salad, pork, tofu soup, vermicelli, rice, and vegetables followed by mango and sticky rice with coconut paste (YUM) and bean paste sweets (not at all sweet - bleurgh!). They explained how Thai people eat pushing everything onto a spoon with a fork. And they helped us come to a decision about a trip we'd been thinking of doing down south (until thunderstorms came into play) saying it just wouldn't be worth it and agreeing to Bruce's suggestion that we head to Ko Samet, a beautiful beachy Bangkok getaway popular with the locals.

Crazy KSR

Heading home (stuffed and) on a high after our ridiculously useless morning we decided to go out for a beer and ended up singing along to some great western covers enthusiastically performed by this little Thai man with a knack for accent impressions. He did a brilliant Ronan Keating/Boyzone number minutes after belting out a convincing Mick Jagger. We had a quick stroll up and down KSR (as you do) and went to bed.

Chill with a Chang

Additional great news - Tor is really tasty! She has twenty bites on one foot since last night on Jada's terrace and I had nowt...which has been slightly debilitating to my Deet vs Skin So Soft experiment (Left arm and leg Deet, right arm and leg SSS)...until just now (but I hadn't put any repellant on in a while).

Phrase of the day: "There's no such thing as a good hair day in South East Asia."