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Published: June 23rd 2017
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At breakfast this morning I said I wanted to go to the fishing village so we did exactly that. We walked up to 'Family Mart' as next to that is a place that hires bikes. It was only mum and I getting the bikes and we decided to get the 2-seater bike, but when we tried to ride it, it was a disaster. So we both agreed that individual bikes would work much better. While we were getting them we all started coughing and there was this burning sensation in the back of our throat from the lady's cooking and they started laughing at us until he came over to help us and was coughing to.
We rode the bikes up the street, to the right where the road parts and straight ahead. On the way we stopped at the monument of Kingnaresuan the great which was a small park with a statue of a man in the middle and 391 roosters sitting at his feet - it was the strangest thing.( King Naresuan the Great reigned from 1590 to 1605, during the Ayutthaya period. He used Cha-Am as a meeting place before going to war against the Burmese
in 1593. If you are wondering why there are so many cocks at the base of the statue, it's because King Naresuan was into cockfighting!)
It took 30 minutes including the stop to get to the fishing village but it was worth it. This time (compared to 4 years ago) they weren't sorting fish so we could walk right over the first bit to see the boats close up. It was horrible my 2 worst nightmares, seafood and piers but mum enjoyed it. We were walking over tiny prawns and you could hear them squelch. When Nana and Pa got there we agreed to go up to the long pier, which started 300m away and was 1km to the end. Every 100m it got wider for no reason and at one of these points we got off and walked our bikes to the next bit because the pier was only 2 meters wide and it was very sandy. We got back on after that and rode to the end. The end was nothing special, one ute, two motorbikes, 3 dogs and 5 people fishing. We rode back and met Nana and Pa at a restaurant where Pa had a fanta. We
then just walked our bikes with 2 dogs still following us that started at the end of the pier. Mum and I then rode our bikes to the other end of the village that was full of restaurants with houses at the back and one internet place that was 1b for 15 minutes! When we got back we had a sprite each at a little restaurant where Nana and I had one last time and nothing's changed yet, she still went and got them from the shop across the street. It was 10B here and Pa paid 20B. Nana found it fascinating and it just goes to show where it looks expensive, it is.
On the way back from the fishing village we stopped at a monk place that had a statue of a monkey with 6 arms. It was the see/hear/ do no evil thing. (Neranchararam temple has a six-armed Buddha image, with the hands closing all channels of the body, to show the cutting off of passion.)
We returned our bikes but had to pay another 40B because we went over the hour. The rest of the day was taken up by me swimming, mum sleeping and everyone had
dinner at AREE a favourite restaurant of Nana and Pa's and we had curried potatoes, it was so nice we ordered another. It sounds horrible and didn't look much but it was really yummy. Nana kept saying it 'was to die for.'
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