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Taxi bikes to Tesco Lotus and truck home
We got Taxi Bikes to Tesco's some 2km away. Taxi bikes are much safer, kids are standing on the footboard of their parents moped since babies. We wove through all the traffic, passing big old coaches spluttering out fumes. Arrived at Tesco Lotus, ...
Sex Tourism and Food Poisoning
So we are
Pattaya bound after 3 days in Bangkok,
pretty straight forward journey of getting a taxi to the bus station
then hopping on the bus for a few hours so that was easy enough.
When we
arrived Kem and Dylan picked us up and took us to their hotel so we could find
a place to stay, the place we chose wasn't great but was cheap and close ...
Keeps getting better...
... new students walk to the front of the hall to recieve their new uniform. They would then walk around to face us teachers and get down onto their knees and bow down to us and recieve a bracelet to welcome them. This completely broke my heart, seeing adults aged 18-45 bowing down, despite their disabilities, to us - foreigners. I can not get my head around it and I spent the next hour choking back tears, watching them struggle but seeing how proud they were. I cannot explain ...
Sriracha Seafood
... 2 7-11 stores per block. They are all air conditioned too. This is perfect because it is so hot and humid in Thailand that you need to duck into some AC and get a cool drink every block!
Finally, not finding any seafood restaurants or any street vendors for that matter, we asked a lady at a 7-11 counter where we could find "Ah-han Talay" (seafood). She called her friend the tuk tuk driver to take us to a special restaurant. We prepared to be ...
Ko SI chang
... of Siracha. From there, a 45 minute ferry ride navigates you through the maze of barges and cargo ships which are busily transferring their loads in the calm waters off the coast, to a small island. Small enough to walk everywhere, but with one significant snag: hills. Even so, we set out first on foot from the untidy-looking pier where the boat had moored, pausing for a noodle-lunch in the village as we walked to the foot of the first point of interest: the Chinese ...