Month: December 2018

Looks like a toy and the 125cc scooter had some problems in the mountains with over 19%  gradient and Faye and me on it.

But we ( and the scooter) survived

Breakfast: in the resort restaurant: unexpected expensive, standard quality but very small portions

Lunch: we skipped, just a beer

Dinner: in a high rated restaurant at the beach: horrible expensive but high quality. Unfortunately again baby portions, so we where still hungry. We went next door to a local restaurant for an addon, very bad decision. Incredible cheep, but poor quality ( very fat and we strongly guess flavor enhancers).

So Faye is again in bed with medicine and whiskey.

What a food desaster, maybe we do not like this beach…

After one week we left the lonely Bottle Beach and now we are 6km further at Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach.

It’s also lovely here, we enjoy the AC, the large and comfortable bed and the hot shower. Sadly we are on the top of the garden, so no beach view. I will try to change that now. I keep you posted…

Add: fully booked out, so we need to stay on the hill…

Thong Nai Pan Noi Beach
Ban Tai, Ko Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani, Thailand
https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUSVr

… is what makes travelling so exciting.

So beautiful that we met Karin, I‘m sure we‘ll meet again someday! 🙂

Collecting lovely shiva shells (thx Karin! :D)

Yesterday I thought it would be nice to have a starter for our dinner. So I ordered “prawn cracker” because I imagined it was something I saw at the neighbour’s table with real fried prawns.

In fact it was just prawn cracker, like chips but made with prawnpowder. They taste quite good, not what I imagined, but ok.

What I and Faye did not realised while eating was that such kind of food contains flavor enhancers  and Faye is highly allergic against it. So after one hour after finishing our main course Faye felt very bad and her blood pressure got down. It took some time to getting back into our room.

Luckywise we had the right medicine with us and a glas of Thai whiskey helped against the nausea.

Today she is better and we learned another importand lesson:

– Real Thai food is healthy

– Convenient Thai food is as bad as everywhere else in the world.

So don’t buy or order it…

• Watching the bird

Other cool activities:

• Having a nap
• Dancing with crabs
• Being scared of the jelly fish
• Searching shells
• Listening to the sound of the ocean
• Enjoying real Thai food

Now you know it 😛

And off we went again … bye bye Koh Samui .,. Here we are Koh Phangan 🙂

Taxi, Catamaran, Taxi, Long Boat and now we feel like at the end of the world at Bottle Beach

Living at the edge of the jungle for one week … little bit scary for me to be honest ^^ but we have already seen some monkeys in the trees, woohoo 😀

Smile Bar
Ko Pha-ngan, Ko Pha-ngan District, Surat Thani 84280, Thailand

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gq3DG

After one week we dare to post this kind of pictures 😉

And yes, you may hate us now!

But who cares anyway, breakfast is waiting … 😛

Today we decided to make a tourist day. Overall that means: spending 5 times more money than usually. But it was a very nice variety.

First we hired a scooter, and (why not) we took the one with the big machine. Good choice with me and Faye on it(^^). Driving was a huge challenge because of the often flooded streets and the crazy other drivers. But at the end all went smoothly.

So what did we as a tourist?

Visiting the shopping streets on high street

Enjoying a (tasty but expensive) fruit shake and real Espresso

Saying hi to the golden Buddha

Having a look at the other beaches with the huge resorts and sun umbrellas

Making some fotos of the Dick-Stone (not a nice view for a man of 50 😉 )

Having a bigger dinner and more beer than usually 😀

That’s it .

Was it worth it?

Sure, it was another experience… 🙂

Most of the other bagpackers here are only half our age but have twice as much baggage 😛

Andy: Look my dear, it will rain in a second.

Faye: are you sure?

Andy: yeapp…

That‘s how a really really chilled-out man looks like!

Interesting, a thunderstorm at the see is more impressive than in the city. Never heard such a loud thunder and the flashes were amazing. Not talking about the tons of water coming from the sky. But finally no serious damage and we are very lucky resting in a stone house with hard roof and not in a tent.

1. Red curry tastes better than the green one

2. Chang is better than Singha

3. Many clouds mean no sunburn

4. Air-condition is cool

5. We love our life

…or just a fantasy

Still wondering

Tired but VERY happy

Strand Resort Restaurant . Beach Club Strand
Moo 6 ตำบล แม่น้ำ Amphoe Ko Samui, Chang Wat Surat Thani 84330, Thailand

https://goo.gl/maps/Qhd3JThxkW92

Bye Bye to everyone, take care, have a lot of fun and visit us somewhere sometime  if you like <3

… and we are on the way to the airport. For European winter we wear definitely the wrong clothes. But we are looking forward to 27 degrees in Ko Samui 🙂