Beach Garden Hotel Hua Hin Cha-am

... We found a little restaurant called "Uno", with an ambitious Italian menu, which of course we didn't try. Their Thai food was chopstick-licking good though. Still, I've not found any fried bananas and it's been 3 days, 3 days of pure hell...<br><br>Years ago, Pierre used to call me his tai-tai, which means Supreme Wife, a Chinese term to depict the boss of the household when Chinese men used to have concubines galore. Now he calls ...

... sped of to the tourist info for some day tripping ideas. First stop Cha'am Forest Park.....with no-one there but a straggly dog I sped round the forest trails until I'd built up an appetite for lunch. <br><br>Heading to the beach with a lunch pack of noodles and a Chang beer, I soaked up the sun and watched an odd Thai bloke looking for treasure with his metal detector. Cycling further to south Cha'am beach I wandered around as the skies darkened ...

Wir sind im Paradis angekommen! Me**, Sandstrand, gutes Essen für wenig Geld, zwei Swimmingpools zur Auswahl und gratis Unt**kunft... Was uns besond**s auffällt, ist die Freundlichkeit d** Thais. Im V**gleich zu den and**en Länd**n (v.a. Indien) sind die Thais extrem freundlich und wenig aufdringlich. Jed** V**käuf**, dem du etwas abkaufst, bedankt sich und schenkt dir ein Lächeln. In Indien waren sie viel zu sehr damit beschäftigt, möglichst viel Geld ...

... with several abscesses that needs to be operated on in Cambodia. Edwin's going with Dr. Yo the vet and they want to bring Lucy as well. To Cambodia. To help operate on a tiger. Oh man. She was excited and we were all excited for her too! At that moment, I wished I was a vet nurse. Unfortunately I'll be leaving before she comes back, but I hope to hear how it goes through facebook later on. I mentioned something earlier about my ...

... them: -The free, good fruit that we are able to eat while living and working at the center. Every other day or so, one of our trucks go to a village and buy tons of fruit and veggies, and bring them back to the center. Most of it goes towards feeding the animals, but we're also able to eat some. I've had a delicious mango almost everyday. I've had a couple of wonderful fresh baby bananas almost everyday as well. Sometimes ...

Yesterday there was word going about the center that we'd be able to go on an ELEPHANT NIGHT SAFARI... but that only 14 of us could go. It was first opened to the people who are solely volunteering with the Elephant Project (not me--I'm doing the Wildlife Rescue Project, but they're both part of the overarching Wildlife Friends of Thailand, www.wfft.org)... and then after the elephant people, it was going ...

... Chinese new year, learned a little bit about that, you are not supposed to clean on that day, the 7th because you could sweep out good luck that the new year has brought. But you have to clean you whole house like the day before so you can clean out all the bad luck. Yeah there is a lot to do with luck. But the other day I cleaned my room cause there was sand all over my room. I really hope I didn't sweep out good luck. How could it be, there was sand, dead bugs, and ...

it was a fine afternoon. a bit high on the humidity side but not too hot. there were clouds for shade. in the bangkok post there were letters to the editor from falangs. they said they loved it here and were really trying hard to fit into the culture. i went to isaan choclec for lunch and myaow was cooking and she made me a tofu lunch. it was pretty good. i washed it down with a large bottle of heineken. gary and i were going to ...

... way and to appreciate their way. there are actually a few other cultural things that take some time to absorb. first, there is this loan thing. it always comes from left field. you are never ever prepared to be hit. and then, boom, just like that there is an odd request for a loan, usually of astronomic proportions. it is not a good idea to ask how much because that is a tacit agreement to lend. so here is where you have to use thai culture to fight thai culture. you ...

i was spending an evening alone in our weekend home in khao yoi, about 60km from cha-am. i went out to the little dusty food court and scored a rice dinner in a plastic bag. all food to go come in plastic bags. back at the house, i opened a bottle of wine, sat down on the couch, and ate my dinner off the coffee table. and then, while sipping wine and reading an article in the newspaper, i just dozed off. i was awakened by the phone. it was pencil ...