Today the sun is out and the day looks picture perfect, no wind,the air is hot, the sky blue. The mission is to pull up a couple of deck chairs by the pool and chill. We picked the smaller family area, sorted out a couple of chairs and proceeded to do absolutely nothing. The worry for today is the barman is … Continue reading →
Cooking today at Pum’s Kitchen in Patong, we were all looking forward to this. The lessons started at Eleven O’clock so we caught the ten O’clock bus to town allowing time to wander and shop in town. The Market stuff wasn’t really going when we arrived and so we headed off to find a Coffee. Another mission, the days was very hot … Continue reading →
70% chance of rain, winds between 15 and 30 knots, storms expected, we are having a light breakfast before being picked up at 8:10 for a trip out diving and snorkeling at Pi Pi island, we are apparently going in a speed boat. We piled into the white mini bus, right on 8.30 and headed across to the east of … Continue reading →
Today we needed to book the last of our tours and I had decided to buy some singlets and T-Shirts. Back we went to Patong Beach to hit the markets fairly early. The markets are not far from the Merlin Hotel Patong and there was rows and rows of stalls all selling much the same things, the usual, monogrammed singlets, … Continue reading →
Starting around 11 am we began our assault on Patong Beach, the transport was a bus that rather looked like a Philippine Jeep Nee, or a stretch Tuk Tuk. Nearly thirty of us pile on this stainless steel troop carrier style truck after presenting our free tickets. Patong doesn’t come alive during the day, even eleven in the morning appears … Continue reading →
