Wednesday
After my action packed day yesterday, I woke up this morning with a few aches & pains, especially in my hands & knees, from gripping the railing and scrambling back onto the boat!
I have a swim which helps loosen things and also cools me down.
Not sure what the weather is up to today but I decide to go for a walk, along the road behind my hotel that the minibus came back down yesterday. It’s an area I haven’t been through.
After the first few shops and bars I think it’s actually a more residential area, and more local as well, if I follow the road all the way it will lead into Bang Tao town, not sure I want to,go that far as it’s extremely hot & humid.
There are some lovely flowers and smells along the way, also another Tsunami Warning Sign. They make me anxious, and I’m always trying to be aware of the safe routes or the highest building! This area was devastated by the Boxing Day Tsunami, so the fear is not unfounded.
Anyway, I’m enjoying my walk, and take a turning which I think will lead back towards the beach. Again it’s mainly residential.
As I come round a corner there are loads of people, mainly men gathering and arriving on mopeds, I’m initially no sure what’s going on, then realise there must be a Mosque here. As I walk on I start to here the Call to Prayer, It’s such a beautiful sound, very evocative and haunting. I stop and listen for a while, everything else is so quiet. It was very peaceful.
I am correct about the road coming back towards the beach, I pass the Posh Hotel I sometimes go to almost pop in for a coffee, but don’t, this is a mistake as around 2 minutes later the heavens open and we have torrential rain! I had bought my umbrella, which is small and pretty useless against this downpour! I run and shelter under a shop canopy and hope it’ll stop soon, it does. I carry on walking but am a little soggy. I stop to have a drink and decide on a Hot Chocolate with Coconut milk, trying to avoid dairy milk. My drink is delicious 😋 very creamy and yummy, unfortunately for some reason it just doesn’t agree with me and when I get back to my hotel, which luckily isn’t far the whole thing goes right through me! 😬I’m hoping that it’s because it was too rich and not that I’ve now got another upset tummy ☹️
I chill in the room, it’s still,raining so no big loss. After a while, some water and a few crackers my tummy feels ok. 👍
I have another swim, read for a bit and go for an early, light dinner, just some vegetable rice, with a fried egg!
Thursday
Another chilled day today, swimming then a walk to the beach, again it’s a massive high tide, so not much beach.
I sit at Arinara beach for a while and have a delicious iced tea.
Then a walk along the beach and back to my favourite spot, a bit of lunch, read, chill and then head back to the hotel for more swimming!
Imago to the Indian for dinner and have Butter Chickem it is so so good! Their Indian food is gorgeous! They are always very busy, especially at the moment as there are lots of tourists from India here and it has a great reputation!
Tomorrow I’m going on another day trip, just to see some sights around Phucket. Not such an early pick up, 9am, nice! 😍
That’s it for now.
More on the day trip next time!
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