Day 40 – 44

Saturday

Apologies for the lack of posts but I’ve been spending all of my time with Rebecca & Chris.

We have had an absolutely fantastic week.

Tuesday 

we spent the day chilling at the apartment and in the pool, it’s been pretty Rainy again today.  We then went for a meal at a restaurant just near the apartments. A Chicken Massamam for Chris and I and Stir fried beef for Rebecca, we also had our first taste of stir fried Morning Glory, which is delicious! 

The restaurant is really cute, a small little family run place with very eclectic crockery! We had a fab little Christmas plate! 

When we got back to the apartment we played a great Dice Game, it’s a game I’ve played before in Australia with Becca, Chris, Georgia & Grantley. It’s such good fun! We played 4 games, I won 2 (Yes!) and Chris won 2!  It’s a pretty simple game but really good fun. 

An iced relaxed, chilled day. 

Wednesday 

Today the weather has certainly brightened up! 

We have breakfast then head to the pool. The pool area at the complex is so lovely, really quiet and relaxing. 

It’s a pretty large pool and I have been cracking in with my swimming. I’ve been doing at least 10 – 12 lengths a day, which is a round 10 more than I could have done 6 weeks ago! 😁 I find it very calming. 

We walked into the small town and went for lunch at the beach. 

The beach bar we visit is a great family run enterprise, they offer, food, drink, massage, jet skiing, surfing it’s s always busy and the guys are so friendly and helpful. A great people watching spot! 

We couldn’t stay late as we are all off to Patong at 5.30 to have dinner then go to another Mauy Thai Stadium!

I thought I would also check out Patong to see about moving to stay there from Bang Tao for a change of scenery.

The drive there is only 25mins, over the hills and along the coast, very pretty. We even saw a few Elephants, proper working ones, moving logs from the forest. 

Patong is sooo busy! The busiest place I’ve seen since Bangkok! We get dropped off at the Stadium, which is in the middle of town then go for a wander. Wow! Busy, bustling, loud, bright. Lots of massage places, with extras, sex shows and clubs, huge karaoke bars! Very different from Bang Tao. 

It doesn’t take long to decide this wouldn’t be the place for me! Great to visit, just not to stay in. 

We have a nice meal then get to the stadium for 8.45. This stadium is much bigger than the one in Chiang Mai, and it gets packed! There are going to be a couple of proper big fights for Belts.

It was bloody brilliant, brutal but great! The fights were amazing, started young but moved through the ages. Excellent fighting. The last fight was a championship belt fight between an American and a Thai. The Thai guy won by knockout in round 5! 

The whole experience was great, expect for 2 small issues; the depth of the steps up to the seating, my knees did not appreciate this! And taking a large slug of my beer and finding my mouthful of a bloody huge wasp!! 😬😵🤢 Luckily it was dead, or pissed and didn’t sting me!! 

A wonderful evening, and so good to have shared it with Rebecca & Chris, who also absolutely loved it. 

Thursday 

More chilling by the pool, a late Brunch as we are off to town later to go to the night market. 

The market starts at 2pm so we grab a taxi (Adnan, our go to Taxi man) at 3pm, Adnan is a little disappointed as he thought we were heading into Phucket town, a nice long drive, instead of the 5 min drive to Bang Tao! 

The market isn’t very big, and as we arrive some stalls are still,setting up, but it does have a good few street food stalls, which Rebecca had been really keen to try. 

Rebecca & Chris are much braver than me when it comes to trying food. They bought some chicken, which I tasted and it was so good, also they had pork kebabs, which I didn’t try. We grab some stir fry’s and they were also delicious! 

We had a good old mooch through all the stalls, Rebecca bought some stuff, I got a couple more small items. It’s interesting to see the difference in price between here and Chiang Mai, everything is more expensive! Not massively but enough. I guess it’s down to this area being much more of a tourist spot. 

More mooching, then we spotted a little stall/bar doing cocktails for 100bht! That’s a bargain! We are all hot and thirsty so we stop and have a Mojito. Yum. Then we try a Mai Thai. Yum. Then we try a Pina Colada! 🍹😂 The drinks were quite strong. We were sitting in a grass verge, on the smallest camping stools known to man!  Rebecca befriended all the local dogs, possibly because she was also eating a big fresh mackerel. 😂 It was so much fun!! 

We ended up getting a Tuk Tuk back to the beach as Chris had to collect his Suit from Mr Mike. The cocktails meant he ended up buying another shirt. The suit looked fabulous! 

We stopped to have some beer and French fries then headed back and played “Shit Head” (a card game) I won a few hands!! 

Friday

The weather was great again today so we to the beach, after our swim!

The beach at Bang Tao is really long, approximately 8km but when the tides in you can’t always get past the various beach clubs and hotels, as they have rocky breakwaters protecting their bit of beach. 

This isn’t a huge problem as we just go back to our usual spot! 

It was nice and busy today, lots of people in the water, swimming, surfing. 

Chris had a Thai Massage on the beach which he said was amazing and sorted his hangover right out! 😁Rebecca was happy because the lady doing the massage was about 70! But bloody strong apparently. 

Another fab day chilling with guys! Trying not to think about them leaving tomorrow! 

Saturday

So todays the day. This most fabulous part of my adventure, seeing and spending time with my girl & Chris is coming to an end. The only thing that stops me being completely heartbroken is knowing that I’ll see them again in 6 weeks. 

We have a last swim, then sort out the apartment. Then we all come to my new hotel, which we have visited during the week, and also made friends of the restaurant manager, Alex. 

Rebecca & Chris are leaving at 5 so we store their cases in my room and all go off to have a massage. Rebecca and I have foot ones and Chris has another Thai massage. It’s lovely and makes us all feel more relaxed and less stressed.

We have our last lunch, Khao Soi, play a last few games of Dice, drink a last Pina Colada, then it’s time. 

It’s just incredibly sad for them to be leaving, I’ve missed them so much and to have had this week together making memories has been unbelievably wonderful. 

Thank you Rebecca & Chris for the best time. I love you to the moon & back. ❤️❤️