Thai Watana Hotel
Travel Blogs from Nakorn Si Thammarat
Train to Bangkok
... food. We brought snacks for the train with us like chips and ****. Still ended up buying a plate of chicken and rice, fried chicken, hot coffee- from out our window! so cool.
It got dark way too quick -no more scenery. Leigh couldn't put his chair all the way back and pulled the seat off and played with the workings. Couldn't get his to work but fixed the girls seat in front of us. He was such a hero! she was so grateful.
We feel asleep spooning on my chair. ha ha! ...
Could you please spare a square....
... anything, this trip down south has made me ashamed. Shameful of my arrogance, of my comfortable lifestyle, of my need for adequate toilet paper. An enormous question cloud seems to follow me around like Pig Pen's dusty trail. Despite all my deep ruminations, I see one thing clear as it ever was. It's grace. I've never felt so much grace before. As Yoda might put it, "Thankful, I am. Content, I must be. But confused, I remain."
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Christmas!
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My family and I were driving in the car and I saw a woman hosing down some of the stray dogs, washing them. People are so nice here, they have good hearts. I want to volunteer at the animal hospital here to do my community service. I think Thungsong is a really special place. It's not just another town on the map of Thailand. There's no tourism here and it's so beautiful and charming and it has personality.I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be ...
Nakhon Si Thammarat: Songkran
... of ancient story, but they managed to fit a mobile phone, plane, and motorbike into the story :D Eitherway it was yet another great insight into some proper Thai culture. The little kid of the lady who owned the museum was very funny; she was way too polite compared to some of the Thai kids on Songkran, and asked us IN ENGLISH (with help from her mum) whether she could squirt us with water! haha. Quite sweet really.] We decided (maybe a bit too late) to get a taxi back ...
Nakorn Si Thammarat
Spent a night in Nakhorn to break up our journey a bit. It is a busy, but interesting city, with lots of great street food stalls, which we made good use of! Hotels seemed a bit few and far between, so we opted for a very cheap (only 180 Baht, or 3 pounds, per night!!!) hotel in the centre which seemed nice enough, although there were a suprising amount of young ladies hanging around in the foyer later on in the evening...luckily this time Danny was not ...
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