Subhamitra Hotel Hua Hin

... under the red corner. All very jolly.

Loving Hua Hin - long, blonde beach (but not very wide at high tide), fantastic restaurants on piers/jetties over the sea, and an interesting view into the lives of the girlies (who work the girlie bars) from our balcon looking down into their private lives with their kids.

As is only to be expected travelling with Jon and his bl**dy computer, which is too precious to leave unattended in Blighty, the aforementioned laptop fell from his bag onto the road as we were trying to negotiate a taxi to the bus station to come to Hua Hin. Thankfully the laptop survived (unlike the one which suffered a similar fate in a carpark in Coin. Spain - it's monitor died).
So ...

... 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...

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 ...

... for a while anyway. Family reunion was nice as well, even though it also naturally involves some inevitable downsides, like being constantly questioned about my plans to come home and graduate, as well as being forced to listen to my sister’s horrible Finnish rap music in our hotel room. A good thing about the time here was also that I had a good opportunity to read and hence prepare myself for my next destination that I knew embarrassingly little about, Burma.

... even
blink, whereas Hua Hin retains the sense of pride in it's country's
traditions.

My trip to Hua Hin started late Friday night,
because a student had given me a lovely present of an very contagious
eye infections, like pink eye. I have learned not to itch my eyes since
then. So the whole trip you will see me with my sunglasses on
preserving my looks and protecting you from a ...

... longer than usual and so by the time we got back to Chumphon and found the bus station, the bus to Hua Hin had just left! So the very helpful guy who was there (with a bit of help from an interpreter to let us know what was happening) phoned the next place where the bus was due to stop (on the outskirts of town somewhere) to tell them to wait and then put us on the back of two motorbikes, with our rucksacks on, and drove us at break-neck speed (not literally ...

... laws, for example: You drive on the left side of the road, unless you want to drive on the shoulder of the right side of the road. -Being in an air-conditioned place then walking outside and remembering it was hot. -Kind of like when you walk out of a matinee and you expect it to be dark outside. Only substitute air conditioning for matinee and dark for cool. -Thinking $5 is a lot to pay for a meal and $1 is too much to pay for a drink

Dopo un paio di giorni a Bangkok, mio zio e ripartito e io sono andato a Hua Hin a fare visita ad Antonio, un famigliare che abita qui. E una zona turistica di mare, ma molto meglio rispetto agli altri posti famosi: piu tranquillita, piu ordine e pulizia (forse per il fatto che anche il re abita in questa citta),... Ora ancora un paio di giorni qui, dopodiche tornero a Bangkok per ricongiurmermi con Ivano e partire per la Cambogia!

... been, he would not have been able to undermine the system of checks and balances proscribed in the 1997 constitution had it not been flawed. one obvious flaw is that the senate lies at the nexus of this structure because it alone appoints memebers to all the other independent bodies. a government endowed with a wealthy individual could buy off a sufficient number of senators and control the membership of all the so called independent bodies that are required by the constitution to ...

... poor Indian experience from the day before was avenged w/some decent Indian fare. New Year's Eve: Given the rude demeanor of our hosts, we spent a portion of the next morning looking for a new guesthouse, but had no luck -- the town was booked for the holiday -- so we decided we were stuck. We went back to the guesthouse and packed up for a day at the Hua Hin beach. Again, we were shocked by how crowded the place was, as well at how much the beach shrunk w/the ...