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Geo: 13.7308, 100.521We went down for breaky and I chose my favourite spot to sit - at the front so you can see the passing traffic. Nana and Pa find it too hot here so sit further back in the restaurant (and nearer to the food for Pa!) Mum's bites, by this morning, were no longer bites but a rash that had spread over her tummy and was really itchyIt was time to leave. Nana and I walked down the lobby leaving Pa and Mum with the bags waiting for the bell-boys to come up; the lift opened to fifty people with suitcases literally standing right at the door and none were very keen to move to let us through. Nana checked us out only to be told that the room was missing a hair-dryer (that ... read more

Geo: 12.8, 99.9667We struggled out of bed at 7am after I again had a sleepless night and made our way down to breakfast to eat as much as we could as fast as we could then caught Mr Long's van down to the fishing village. Mum and my aim was to get down there as early as we could so we would see the village when it's really 'alive' and at 7:40 when we got there it still well and truly was. The way it's set out is that on one side of the road is the piers and restaurants and the other size is the houses of the rich, but if they have so much money I don't see why they would live in Thailand's smelliest place. On the side of the road with the ... read more

Geo: 12.8, 99.9667I was woken at 10:30 after leaving breakfast abruptly because I felt sick again. At 11:15 we all trooped down to Mr Long's for him to take us around Cha-Am as Pa had organised an hour beforehand but somehow through the language barrier we were booked for 12:30. Because of this, Mr Long and the car were down in Hua-Hin still. Our first trip was to the fishing village a couple of kilometres up the road so with no other reasonable option we hired a taxi from across the road to take us. The fishing village consists of two main piers with small bamboo planks leading to particular boats. Despite Cha-Am being a small town there was a good 200 boats of all different sizes, mostly they go out at night with their illuminous ... read more

Geo: 12.8, 99.9667Again today was a lazy day. We hung around the pool all day leaving mum's white legs with a tip of sunburn on the top making her look even more ridiculous than what her ridiculously white legs already did (sorry mum). Again we had the pool to ourselves for the majority of the time with only one Scandinavian sunbaking. Pa was sitting there with the antenna for his radio spiralling all the way up the tree, mum was reading Readers Digest and I came back up to the room to read on the balcony; I have no idea where Nana was or what she was doing. After lunch and an hour or so of very heavy rain mum went down to find the pool empty, surprise, surprise, I carefully tipped ¼ of a bottle ... read more