Geo: 12.8, 99.9667Got up early this morning and had a swim before breakfast. We were the first people there but some Thai's came in later to do their laps. We sat right next to the railing at breakfast meaning the road was only a few meters away. All of a sudden we saw 4 people run out towards the road with chairs and plastic bags, we thought they must've been crossing the road to the beach or something but no, they stopped and put their chairs down right next to the road. The next thing we know all these Monks are coming in a single file. At the chairs they stopped and held out their begging buckets, the people put their food in and off they went. Two minutes later we heard someone talking on a ... read more

Geo: 12.8, 99.9667At 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 ... read more

Geo: 12.8, 99.9667Went down for breakfast this morning and we could choose from brown rice, spaghetti beef bologais (their spelling), pork fried noodle, chicken fried with ginger, steam rice, chicken with bokchoy, congee pork, vegetable salad, eggs, ham, frankfurt like sausages, cereal, bread, croissants, and a Chinese croissant. As I said yesterday, nothing for us. Nana made up a salad for herself for breaky. She had cherry tomatoes, shredded cabbage, cucumber cubes, lettuce, peanuts, watermelon, onion rings ,melon, chicken sausage, sultanas, tomato sauce, topped with thousand island dressingWe then bought all our bags down to the lobby and waited for the taxi man we organised the day before. At 4 minutes after he was meant to arrive Nana and Pa walked over to reception to see if they could organise someone, but on the way back ... read more

Geo: 14.02, 99.53We got up an early and did a bit of packing then went down to breakfast for the last time. It was rather sad but in a way I was happy because since we've been back from Kanchanaburi in 2006 and I didn't cross the bridge the whole way because I'm petrified of bridges I've wanted to cross it and today was the day. We had a quick breakfast because mum and I wanted to have a quick swim. The pool was empty and very nice but we couldn't spend long there because we had to do last minute packing. So within 15 minutes we were back in the room. 10 minutes later we went down to reception to check-out then catch the taxi we organised two days ago. It was a different taxi ... read more

Geo: 13.7308, 100.521After breakfast we headed out and saw the taxi driver Nana and Pa use so we booked with him to go to Kanchanaburi and I went back up to the room to get hats but when I was walking back the guy that orders the taxi asked my name so I told him as I was walking through the door the doorman opened for me, well I was meant to walk through it but instead I walked straight into the wall next to it causing everyone around to go into hysterics. Then when I came down again he was like how are you Melissa? What are you doing Melissa? Have a good day Melissa. But the way he was saying my name was like Mmalllissssaaaa. It was so funny. We then continued walking onto ... read more