Lost in Krabi
Trip Start
Oct 11, 2002
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Trip End
Nov 04, 2002
Krabi,
Thailand
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
We decided to walk around Krabi and do a spot of shopping for some essentials (ie money purses, thongs and sarongs). Our walk around Krabi continued and continued and continued. We ended up at the morning market and passed whole plucked chickens and geese just sitting on tables with flies gathering round. We also passed anchovies sitting in baskets. Lots of fruit was for sale too.
Spending the day in Krabi we decided to check our e-mails and send an update to family and friends. We pulled into Krabi Internet and Computer which was airconditioned and cost 45B for an hour.
I had four e-mails waiting for me. Two from Mum, one from Betto and one from Sara. Mum was checking in with me and also sent a second e-mail to say that a bomb had gone off in Bali, killing 180 people, mostly Australians. Our parents were a little worried about us. I sent a group email of some of the things we've seen. Betto sent me the results of Bathurst - which was very disappointing. Sara emailed to say that my manager Pam had gotten engaged to Frank - very unexpected. I got a couple of replies back from Betto and Alison which was nice to get (even though Betto was paying me out for refusing to believe that my sandals were completely wrong!)
We left and continued wandering in circles until finally we were thirsty and stopped for a drink and a copy of the Bangkok Post to find out more about the Bali bombing. It was pretty horrible stuff and made us both feel glad to be in Thailand.
We then went back to the hotel and went up and sat in the rooftop beer garden a while. The views were great and Nicole was staring at the barman making an offering to the spirits in the spirithouse. He could feel her watching him as he prayed and turned around uncomfortably. We had seen lots of spirithouses in our travels so far, and they fascinated us as we weren't sure exactly what they were for and they looked like mailboxes. We had driven past places where spirithouses were for sale and stacked up in a big pile waiting for a new owner. Apparently the owners have to have a comfortable house for all the spirits to live in so that they don't take over the house. If a family do a renovation to their house, they have to upgrade the spirithouse so that they spirits don't become angry. They offer incense, food, drinks and trinkets for the spirits in their spirithouse on a daily basis to keep them happy.
We wandered off down the street for dinner and stopped at O'Malley's Irish Pub so Nicole could get a Guinness. We started talking to an English guy who was in Thailand with his partner and 4 year old daughter. They are spending over 6 months in Thailand! They had also been to lots of other places in the world which was very interesting to hear about. We left to go to dinner and discovered that Nicole's Guinness had cost her 275B, equivalent to $13!! I hope it was worth it.
We headed down towards the night market but it started to rain so we had dinner at Sunshine Restaurant and looked at the market after tea. In a moment of homesickness, Nicole bought some grapes but they had mildew on them.
On the way back to the hotel we stopped at the post office and I made a collect call to home - just to allay Mum's fears, although she wasn't at all worried about us. By the sounds of things, Mrs Shaw was more concerned that she hadn't heard from Nicole.
