Not much to report about the last few days. Monday was good as i went for a wander in the morning and found a Subway!!!! Brilliant no noodles for me at lunchtime! So i went inside and ordered myself a foot long! Yum!!! Got talking to an English guy while in there who was also fed up of noodlels and wanted soemthing a bit more english! Turned out he was staying at the same hotel and travelling back hopme that evening. He had coem with his brother and seeing as i wasn't really sure how to get back to the hotel he offered to show me. We then both said see you later and an hour or so later he turned up at the pool so we had a good natter about backhome and places to go in Thailand. He had just been to Auz and also around all the Islands so i got soem names of places to stay which was cool. His brother turned up then and it started to rain!! They were going to "Siam City" which is a large shopping centre and asked if i wanted to join them so i did. Sounds a bit strange but although it supposed to be really safe out here i don't really like getting into Cabs on my own. Soem of the taxi drivers have been a bit dodgy so i'm trying to do things either in organised groups or with people to be safe. Maybe i'm just being paranboide but its how i feel!
So we got to this Siam City and went into one shopping centre much like those in the UK, loads of shops and restaurants, however this one was quite pricey for Thailand so we left and went to o\another one which i can't remeber the name of.... anyway! It was crazy, stall after stall after stall, unfortuntalely i didn't have my camera coz i'm not sure i can do it justice. Its a maze of shops with everything you can imagine! Apparentl;y over 2000 different stalls. They have designer jeans, watches, bags, phones, Ipods, restaurants, its crazy! I recommend anyone gets a cheap flight out here and comes with am empty suitcase, its soo cheap. And fake obviously but hey, who cares!!??
So anyway i got a new watch - an Omega i have had my eye on in Selfridges for ages i just was never going to pay the 950 quid price tag!! Well i now have one for 15 quid! Bargain! So after that crazy experience we left and went back to the hotel. I arranged to meet them later for dinner and we went to a little street seller just around the corner who was recommended to us and went for a beer. They then got on thier coach to the airport and i went back to my room as i had to be up at 7.00am for a trip.
To give you the short version i didn't make the trip as i got either food poisoning or travellers tummy! I have no idea which i opnly know i was on the loo for the entire night and the majority of the following day. I only popped out for soem more water and to update my new Thai sim with some money! Not impressed! But hey what can you do, these things happen!!
So to be safe that evening i went to Mc Donalds and got a Cheese Burger and chips!!!! Still felt a bit rough but thank god for immodium and those salt things that mke you feel right again!! One other thing i did was i sent back a package to you Ma and Pa, brought a few bits and realised they weren't going to fit anywhere so they are hopefully on thier way to you, they say it will take 1-2 weeks so fingers crossed! Oh and i also got a load of movies on my Ipod - the guys i met told me about it and bascially you pay to get movies and al;bums put onto your Ipod for you. Brilliant! I managed to put a few on before i went but they had season 2 of Heros! Oh yeah baby! I was naughty and started to watch them last night - i nearly didn't go out for dinner!
Wednesday i still felt a bit fragile and so took it easy in my room and went to get a Thai massage which was heavenly! Well i say that now coz i felt very relaxed afterwards but it is such a strange thing, for starters you keep all your clothes on, which i didn't know!! Nealry took my top off but was saved by another woman having one! Could have been dodgy! They click your bones and stretch you this way and that. At one point i was lying down and she had her leg under mine and was pushing my leg away and pulling it back with her hands - very difficult to describe and even more difficult to enjoy!!! And my god have they got the bonyest fingers and elbows! You thought mine were bad, not even close! Overall it was good but if you have a weak disposition then don't have one - i think they may actually enjoy the pain!! Saying that i'll probably go back for another one! He he! It Sent me back to my room and back to Sleep!
I then went for dinner, having not met any friends. (People around the pool are not that freindly at this hotel, which is a bit rude but hey, i don't really mind!) I went to this Jewish place which was in my guide book, i only went coz i fancied Pitta and Hummous and when i got there i felt VERY out of place and they didn't have hummous!! Ahhhhhh! So i had a chicken shish kebab which wasn't exactly nice but by that point i didn't want to walk out. It wasn't until i had sat down that i realised that i had actually asked someone who was simply eating here if i could sit down not a waiter!How embarrassing! How am i supposed to know tho? He had a little hat on(can't remeber the proper name - very sorry if i offend anyone!) and he was talking to his friend who looked like a Rabbi with a beard and a long black outfit on. Turns out all the waiters are Thai! What a donut!
After dinner i was going to go for a drink soemwhere and was just about to sit down at one of the roadside places where i had spotted with my eagle eye another girl sat on her own. Unfortunately the drunken English larger louts had found themselves a little too drunk and had decided to have a fight and show each other who is more matcho! Don't you just love being English when that happens?? So anway after about 10 mins the police were called as more and more people got involved so i decided to cut my losses and go back to Heros where i knew i wasn't going to get a drink spilled over me or get caught in the crossfire!
So this morning got up as usual for brekkie - had cornflakes today with warm milk - i don't recommend it at all and tomorrow i will go back to my staple of toast and strawberry jam! I'm soo English! There wasn't anywhere to sit at breakfast so i asked to sit with two guys who were sitting with a space opposite them both. ONe turned out to be English the other French with really bad English! Needless to say i eat my cornflakes as quickly as possible. The English Man is apparently out here on business and he spoke in the poshes voice i have ever heard! Funny coz some of the English i have met have called me Posh! Ha bloody Ha! Anyway after breakfast i go to the pool (its still not sunny!!) but am trying to meet people! Anyway the now re-named Weirdo English man comes and sits next to me and wants to chat! Seriously your wierd! So anyway i left the pool for a bit as he gave me the creeps and then came back at lunchtime thinking i had got rid of him but no he bloody turns up again and the sunlounger next to me is free and he starts telling me about how he is really important in England - what a wierdo! So hence me coming into the Internet Cafe to write an essay and try to avoid the wierdo man!
Think i'm going to book the trip that i missed on Tuesday again for tomorrow in a minute and try not to eat anything even slightly suspect tonight. Maybe i'll just eat another of those lovely banana pancakes wtih chocolate - yum!
Anyway this is me signing off for another few days, got some friends coming at the weekend. Marrianna and her boyfriend Kurt and Peter who i used to work with and his girlfriend Rhianna so i'm looking forward to seeing them and visiting soem places with them.
On Monday 3rd March i'm off up North to Chang Mai, i've booked a 3 day cooking course a 3 day trek and 1 day White water rafting!! All through the same place, Eagle House - i have been emailing them to arrange everything and they seem really lovely. At the moment they don't have anyone else booked in for the 3 day treck so it may just be me with two guides! HOw cool would that be my own private tour!
Oh and i haven't forgotten thet you want my itinary Lou - i'll do that separately in a min.
Hope everyone is ok in the UK and safe in the knowledge that its raining here too, its just a lot hotter which is good for me!
S-J xx
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