Last full week in Thailand

Monday, A new charging cable was delivered for Rog’s bike, but unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem, so a replacement battery was delivered, result, problem fixed!

Tuesday, Rog was in need of a haircut, so this time went to a barbers on the main tourist road, Chaweng Beach Road, a more expensive hair cut!! It’s all about the fade!

Wednesday, we set off on the newly fixed bikes, towards a waterfall in the centre of the island, had to negotiate a ford, thankfully not too deep, we did stand and watch a couple of cars and scooters go through before attempting it ourselves!

But then the serious uphill started, the bikes did really well, but couldn’t get us all the way up, and the electric bikes are so heavy we couldn’t pedal them up without their power. We enjoyed the ride despite not making it to the waterfall.

The sky was also getting darker and darker, so we stopped off for coffee, and were really lucky with the timing, it absolutely threw it down whilst we were having coffee, and just about stopped as we got back on the bikes.

Lunch at a stunning restaurant called Kewin’s, serving fresh local fare, both the fish and beef curries were wonderful.

Thursday, back on the bikes to the north coast again, this time for a beach walk. But this beach had a really different sand to the other beaches, this was large sand grains almost pebbles, which made it really difficult to walk on, so we didn’t get far, before yep you guessed it we stopped for coffee. (Other drinks are available and Nic has never had coffee!)

Friday, was a bit of an admin day, cancelling our free Amazon prime membership, we’ve watched a few TV programmes on the smart TV. Rog had some KLM/AirFrance air miles to use before they expired at the end of the year, which we have not managed to use on a flight, so bought a solar charger!

There was an amazing storm overnight Friday into Saturday morning.

Saturday we awoke to no running water, the landlord arrived within the hour and fixed the water pump and reset fuses in the junction box following the storm.

The rain continued most of the day, we did manage to walk down to the beach for a massage in the local massage ladies newly constructed hut! I think we’ve funded a good proportion of it!

The bikes were supposed to be collected today, but that never happened.

Sunday, we checked out by 11am, the host was really kind, as it was still raining and gave us a lift down the road to a cafe we had booked for brunch.

Then we flagged down one of the endless supply of taxis, for a ride to our new hotel, about six miles away in Lamai. The Villa Nalinnadda hotel, is adult only, includes breakfast and spa treatments. We have a beach front villa… well it is our wedding anniversary, 19 yrs this year!

The hotel does not serve dinner, so we ventured out in the pouring rain to the nearest bar/ restaurant that the hotel owner had recommended. A few cocktails and local food, all for a very reasonable price….. we sat outside under the shelter of the roof above the bar, and despite the wind and rain, and being the only customers, we had a lovely time.