Lost Horizons

Holiday - last day

So this is it, the last day of the holiday, and it has been fine. I have to admit that I came to Pattaya with some negative, pre-conceived ideas. On the whole these were unwarranted, and Pattaya is definitely on my list of places to come back to.
In reality it is the same as Phuket – it can offer the same in greater or lesser quantities; but, apart from the lack of hills, there is no great difference. Yes, OK, there may be some specialised interest that isn’t catered for here as well as in Phuket, but I am at a loss to think what it is. It is a lot bigger, in the number of hotels, bars, go-go bars, restaurants, etc. Yes the go-go bars are more entertaining, but the hawkers are selling the same cheap imports from China or a sweat shop in Bangkok, the tailors try and get you to buy inexpensive, ill fitting clothes made from cheap materials, similar attractions are available, beer bars are of a similar business model, the same dishes are served in the restaurants that even look the same as in Phuket.
I was fortunate to stay in a great hotel, right on the baht bus route from Pattaya to Jomtien, so I had the best of both worlds; a nicer beach in the day time and a bigger choice of nightlife at night.
The last day was spent on Jomtien beach. We had a nice picnic of crab, chicken and pork with some sticky rice, and Peanut had a manicure and pedicure.
Peanut hasn’t been feeling 100% for the last couple of days, and this was made worse by some tom yam soup she had last night. After the meal we headed back to Living Dolls go-go, but I could see she wasn’t enjoying it, and to be honest, neither was I. She tried to put a brave face on it, but eventually admitted she was feeling cold. After that we left and sat at a beer bar, thinking that the lack of aircon may help. But in a short time Peanut threw up a couple of times, so we decided it was best that we headed back to the hotel. Once we got back, she was putting a brave face on it, looking a bit better, and said that I should go back out, again. However, I decided against this course of action. I also said I would sleep in the other room, so that my snoring wouldn’t disturb her; but, in the early hours she crawled into bed next to me saying that she couldn’t sleep on her own. Really the last night of my holiday ended with a whimper more than a bang. At least I woke up with a clear head this morning.
I haven’t taken nearly as many photos as I took on my last holiday. This is partly due to having a shorter holiday, and also because we spent more of the evenings in go-go bars where the use of mobile phones, let alone cameras is forbidden.
So now all that is left is to check out, drive to Suvarnabhumi Airport (I have even learnt how to pronounce that this week, up to now I have just called it the new Bangkok Airport), and fly back home to an apartment with no food in it. Looks like supper in LKF tonight. That’ll be a bit more expensive than I have been paying this week, for sure.

posted by Luke @ 8:46 AM