Lost Horizons

Holiday Day 3

Hmm, there's something amiss - I can't access any of the blogs using blogger, but here's today's entry.

Woke up this morning and Peanut has a hangover – “som nam na!” for drinking all those vodka and oranges!

Today we decided to check out Jomtien Beach, so we headed over the hill in the baht bus. We had some breakfast in a beach front restaurant, and in the interests of national harmony, she had an American breakfast, whilst I ate Thai food.
Peanut wanted to visit a beauty shop to have her hair washed, so while this was going on, I had another foot massage – this one was a lot better than yesterday’s. The young girl was really strong, despite her size, and gave my feet a thorough going over.
After that I found that Peanut had gone the whole hog and had her toe and fingernails done as well – no problem as it was only 400 baht.



We walked along Beach Road, and it was really quiet. The beach seems a lot cleaner than Pattaya’s. When I commented on the deck chairs being set up round small tables under a forest of umbrellas, compared to Patong where they are set out in rows; Peanut explains that a lot of families come here from Bangkok, and so they want to sit around tables in the shade.
Eventually we made our way to Wat Jomtien, which seemed to be closed; so, now it was time for some food, again. Peanut bought some prawns, crabs, salted fish and somtam and we had a picnic on the beach. Peanut also bought some ant’s eggs, but I kindly declined her offer to share these.



After as few hours we decided to head back for a siesta.

In the evening, we went down to Pattaya, I thought that Peanut may be getting bored of go-go bars, so suggested that we try somewhere else; but we ended up on Walking Street, at her insistance. Naturally the first thing to do was to get some food in our stomachs, so we decided to try Zab Café. This is right at the north end of Walking Street, upstairs above a bar. The food wasn’t cheap but it was very good; we had a sizzling seafood platter, fishcakes and seafood and seaweed casserole – well worth a visit if your in town.

After that we went to the Beach Club. Beach Club dancer uniform is almost exactly the same as Peppermint: boots, green socks, green skirt and white top. Peanut decided she was going to drink beer. When she drinks beer she likes it in a glass with some ice, so the drinks come, and we are sitting there and two girls are dancing on our table. I point out to Peanut that the table is a mirror and is good for looking upwards, but she doesn’t catch on, until one of the girls lifted her skirt up to show Peanut that she wasn’t wearing any knickers. Peanut wasn’t happy about this and kept hold of her glass after that, refusing to put it on the table, and we had to leave after the first drink, because Peanut didn’t think it was clean there.
After that Peanut dragged me into Angelwitch, and we got a seat near the front. I am not going to say too much about this place, because you already know about it by now; but the show does change a bit so you will not be totally bored after three days. The waitresses are friendly and like having a laugh with you. At one point, Peanut went out to make a phone call or something, and I ended up having three of them groping me, whilst a fourth kept KV for when Peanut came back.

A very pleasant evening, but with all that seafood, I had some really weird dreams last night.

posted by Luke @ 9:25 AM