Huahin Grand Hotel & Plaza Hua Hin

... 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 ...

... the many battleships guarding the seashore. This also affected our holiday as we got an unexpected message a couple of days ago that the Thailand government had decided that we need to change our hotel the next afternoon due to security reasons because the delegations from China, India and Brunei had "changed their mind" and were coming to our hotel. Some tourists were of course outrageous about it &#8211; they have to waste a valuable holiday day for packing up ...

... even<br>blink, whereas Hua Hin retains the sense of pride in it's country's<br>traditions. <br><br>My trip to Hua Hin started late Friday night,<br>because a student had given me a lovely present of an very contagious<br>eye infections, like pink eye. I have learned not to itch my eyes since<br>then. So the whole trip you will see me with my sunglasses on<br>preserving my looks and protecting you from a ...

I left early Monday am to check out Hua Hin, on the opposite (Western) side of the Gulf of Thailand. To get there, you have to go north to Bangkok (3 1/2 hours, 200 B ($6 US) for an air con minivan), then transfer to a minivan or bus going south down the opposite coast for 3 hours (180 B, $5.40 US.) <br><br>Hua Hin is the home of the King's summer palace, but I don't know how they define summer here. It's freakin' hot every day of the ...

... the wooden pier and temporary walkway from the boat was sliding all over the place. The workers on the boat we getting people off the boat 1 at a time, 1 pulling and 1 pushing people onto the pier!?! As you can imagine this took quite a while and the baggage system (what system?) didn't really help. SB: We've done some pretty hairy stuff on our travels so far (skydiving, hiking over crevasses on a glacier, rock climbing, abseiling, etc) but this was ...

... then got a tuk tuk to a bar on soi 51. Johnny walker black label was on the menu. We were all getting drunk or at least I was :-). Two Thai boyz sat with us, one beside Tony and one beside me,, to keep us warm. A few of us stayed on at the bar for another drink and then later back to the hotel. I left the hotel at 6am with the shuttle bus and fell into bed. I didn't see day light until 2pm the next day. :-)

... talking with us foreigners and learning thai.. It's a really nice atmosphere, very different to the luxuries we have at pattaya but i love both sites for different reasons... There's a girl here from america called Casey whose fighting next week so i've had some sparring practice in with her, she's much heavier than me and like a bloody machine, really powerful and looks toned as hell - like one big muscle!! so it's been tough ...

So i wanted to post some pictures, but I also wanted to tell you all that I am better now. Today while getting off the bus from school this boy Derek was walking down our long walk to the building where we live and I got stuck and couldn't move my feet. I was so confused why I was stuck to the ground, and then Derek notices I am stuck to paint. Oh yes, they painted arrows on the road, just in case ...

Hi, wanna go with me at the beach of the quiet Hua Hin, the classic beach of the royal province of Thailand (at the Gulf seacoast of Thailand)? Enjoy the photos and if possible, if you plan to make a vacation in Thailand, this is one choices of other famous beaches of Thailand, or even come to Thailand to join the Volunteer Vacation Projects to be held in the coming months in 2006, at Thailand's north and south. Siripen Yi.

... or splurging on a chair and umbrella (50 cents), reading, dozing, watching people, talking to them, buying freshly cut mango or pineapple from the beach vendors (they're soooo nice, but what a **** job to walk up and down the island all day, every day, in the sun, selling fruit and sarongs to the lazing farangs--Thai for foreigners/westerners...). Yesterday I actually got off my duff and did a bit of exercise and walked down to the southern tip of the island ...