March 14, 2017

A relaxing ride around the area. We have a small kitchenette in our room which has a microwave, kettle, toaster, fridge and an electric hot-plate, it also has plates and cutlery. It is nice to be able to cook breakfast for ourselves.

The hotel is located 3 kms from the main road (Highway 3) and 4 kms from a small village/beach resort area with lots of beach restaurants and a 7-11.

There are some nice new condo/hotel blocks and one dilapidated place. We always speculate what has happened to these buildings, did the developer run-out of money?

We had decided to head out to the Town of Ban Phe to get some groceries, a little further down the coast. Ban Phe is a jumping off point to Koh Samet (a small Island), and Ban Phe has a large fish market.

There was a nice Wat in Ban Phe – dedicated to the fishermen of the area, I think. A lot of work is being done to the Wat at the moment with new paint and cleaning.

We stopped on the way back for lunch, rice with a fried egg on top! A butterfly decided I smelled nice! I think it died shortly after landing on my leg, because it stayed there for a while.

On the way back Ralf took a couple of photos of the beach area.  Where the hotels were the beach was nice and clean, a little further down it was dirty.  There were signs indicating fines for littering.  However, a lot of the garbage is washed up on the beach from the sea.

In one area, we heard the thump, thump of a vehicle with loud music playing.  Do you think this guy has enough speakers?  By the time Ralf took this photo, the music had changed to something quite soothing, almost!

After dropping our groceries at our condo/hotel we headed up to Highway 3 to see if there was anything interesting on that road. We found a bike shop, where Ralf was interested in a new kick-stand.

We were going to go for a swim when we got back, but the pool was being cleaned and it was already 4:30. We relaxed for an hour and then had dinner in the room.

Ralf bought a case of beer from the little store next to the condo, it is cheaper than buying it by the bottle and we are here for a week.

I probably will not be updating the blog until we are on the move again, next Monday, unless we take another trip on the bikes or something exciting happens.  I am sure you do not want to read – we relaxed and swam in the pool or Ralf bought the bike stand and did the laundry!