Although we had a lazy start this morning, I had to update my blog so was out on our verandah in order not to wake up Gerry. Well by 9 a.m. we went for our breakfast – loads of fruit made up of ever so sweet pineapple, juicy watermelon, mouthwatering papaya and fresh pomelo. This morning I decided to have also a bowl of fried rice while Gerry had his normal breakfast of eggs sunny side up on toast coffee and fresh fruit.
As our driver was supposed to be picking us up at 5 p.m. I enquired at the reception whether we could check out at that time, however this would cost us another 1,000 Baht (€28,00) so we decided just to stay by the pool and use their facilities but vacate the room at 12 noon.
So, being a lazy day, we walked around the beautifully landscaped gardens and along the river and took some pictures. We even went in for a swim and the water was just so refreshing.
We had a good lunch later in the afternoon so that we wouldn’t need to eat again very soon. Lovely salad the same as last night and a beef burger for Gerry while I had a chicken club sandwich.
Various pathways and garden statues and the lawn sprinklers are on!
We were ready to go by 4.30 and when we arrived at the reception, our driver had just arrived so we set off straight away. He told us that traffic could be bad hence his early arrival. Well traffic flowed easily and we made it well within 1.5 hours which meant by 6.15 p.m. we were dropped in front of the station!
And what a shock we had!!! Streets were being repaired and restructured, lots and lots of scooters whizzing through the pedestrians, cars cramming their way between the stalls and market vendors trying to sell their wares! So there we stood with our luggage more than two hours early, however I went into the station to make sure which platform we needed to be for our night train to Surat Thani. The young man took my tickets and started highlighting dates, times, names etc and then told me the train had an hour delay! He could not explain what caused the delay so we decided to walk down the market street towards the temple where it was less crowded. And to add to it all a bird shitted on my arm! That’s supposed to be good luck but this evening we’ve run out of good luck.
Loads of stalls and loads of restaurants but we didn’t want to eat anymore as we had had a hearty late lunch but we would have loved to sit somewhere and have a coffee – no luck as most coffee places were closing up for the evening. Well we walked to the park in front of the temple and by this time our initial shock more or less subdued. We sat ourselves on a concrete bench round a tree and just watched the world go by. Luckily my iPad was recharged and I started updating my blog for today. And that’s where we are right now back at the station and waiting for our delayed train
It’s now 10.20 pm and I’ve enquired when our train would arrive – it’s now supposed to arrive at 11.10 pm – fingers crossed!
There was our train finally. This is all part of the adventure of travelling locally and now to find our sleeper couch! Good night all!
Just read your blog.
The trip your on sounds absolutely amazing such an adventure.
Love the photos.
Hi Ella! Thanks – glad you’re enjoying my blog – we’ve finally arrived in Khao Sok National Park and are staying at the Rock and Tree House Resort – now going canoeing so I’ll have enough to write about this evening. How’s your foot doing? Getting better? Xxx