Now we are 2 days into our Thai trip, and seem to have overcome the jet lag of 6 h.
We arrived yesterday morning, 6 am in Bangkok and then took a cab to Hua hin where we crashed in 10 pm. Kiara was the only one who managed to get a tiny bit of sleep on the plane, and she happily talked constantly the whole taxi ride (until she threw up.) Once we arrived to the home exchange apartment by the golf course we allowed ourselves 2 h of sleep, (K still didn’t manage), and then dragged us out for a wake up dip in the pool - and we were ready to Rock and roll!
Beach, street food, supermarket and bed. No one had issues falling asleep…
Today we’ve been to the neighbouring town Cha An and checked out a park (gibbon ✅), beach, nail parlour and more street food and supermarket.
So, how can I summarise my impression of Thailand after 2 days?
- “maj prik/ phat” - not spicy/ chili - is obviously up to each person’s taste buds to judge. I needed to “vaska” todays dinner after a few bites when my nose was running with a higher frequency than when I’m nose bleeding, and I couldn’t feel my lips any longer.
- The agreed price has turned out to be misunderstood several times (never in my favour unfortunately).
- The biggest group of westerners are - by far - single men age 50-80ish. Or maybe not single, quite very often with a local woman.
- As we live by the golf course (which isn’t a kind of place I usually hang out) I am rather surprised to see that in this “sport” (practiced by men to maybe 90%) - the whole bag is constantly carried by a small Thai lady - while the “sportsman”, about twice her size, doesn’t carry a thing. Yes, they do also travel by golf car - but the whole bag still needs carrying every now and then, and here I’ve never seen a man carrying his own stuff.
After having looked for a grab/bolt/uber without success for maybe an h, we were finally lucky with the back of a pickup!
Matkoma after baked potato at night market.
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