Friday 17th January
Today we are
leaving Boat Lagoon marina (Phuket). We
have to wait for high tide; we are actually sitting on mud most of the time and
there are few opportunities in the day to get out out OUT into deeper water.
Our aim is to go
to some of the beautiful little islands along the coast, heading back towards
Langkawi. All good!
Lots of adventures
since I last wrote…
We had an
excursion to Aphrodite Cabaret, about twenty minutes from here. We hired a car, which was very salubrious; it
did NOT come from Mr Din’s stable. (It
did look good but…it found hills very challenging…cough cough splutter groan…)
The cabaret show
was very slick, glam, well organized, fun.
All ladyboys, frocked up to the nth degree. I so want a head-dress!
Bronwen had the
prettiest cocktail ever.
The souvenir shop
was extraordinary. There were a few
pretty touristy things – elephant carvings, pretty colourful lights, lots of
bling – but most of the vast area was – dried food. Nuts, biscuits and – fish products! All of of them had little sample pots with
the display, very convenient. I bought
wasabi cashew nuts and James did NOT buy a Big Squid. But he did sample it and dared me to join
him…no it was NOT yummy…
Yesterday we had
an excursion to Patong Beach. Bron had
expressed one wish, and only one wish – to go to the most touristy strip on
Phuket and saunter down the street, bargaining and buying a bit of this and
that. Pete and James did not understand
this need but they joined in the enterprise with enough enthusiasm to make both
Bron and me happy.
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| Co-ordianting phones. Pete wearing splendid new TilleyHat |
I tried to explain that if we
didn’t go to Patong Beach I would be like going to Hobart and only seeing
Glenorchy. Very nice and worthy and full
of useful tradey shops but…no Salamanca, no harbour, no Mt Wellington, no Battery
Point??
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| Umbrellas as far as the eye can see |
We had great
fun. I bought two (or is it three??)
dresses; Bronwen bought even more. We
gawked at people having foot spa treatment – those darling little fish do enjoy
this, I think.
I marveled, as
always, at the tangles of wires which festoon the streets in most Asian
countries.
We got back to
Boat Lagoon just after five, after an interesting trip back and forth along the
roads of Phuket… Fortunately, James was in the front with Pete, navigating… The
map wasn’t clear; the roadsigns were few and far between, so we got to see a
lot more of the countryside and the backroads than we had anticipated…
But we did get
back JUST in time to have showers, put out the wasabi nuts etc and to receive some
of our friends for drinks.
We totally ran out
of crackers, to my astonishment – I thought we had an endless supply of
sakatas, but…no. Pete cut some of our
ham and James was highly amused to see people using the ham as a basis for
cheese and dips, in the absence of crackers.
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