Louise's substitute birthday as we are travelling tomorrow.
Got up and went for breakfast, were given wrong menu as we're confused with non-guests. Have a different fruit salad today, no dragon fruit, but did have delicious apple. After breakfast we shower and Ieuan dispatched for birthday present shopping before the usual scrum of beggars start congregating at the entrance. Met up in internet cafe and sold another finished book, amazingly though the pile of our books keeps growing though. Have a drink at Fresco before heading for a stroll up the street, looked in a gift shop on the way back and Louise got a lovely silk bag and purse for birthday, plus a couple of other presents for other people. Stopped at a bar called Metro for Ieuan to have a delicios Thai beef salad for lunch and to escape the heavy rain. Rain calmed down after 45 minutes so we waded home amid numerous offers of "tuk tuk sir"
Dry off in the bar whilst Lou gets goats cheese wrap from Fresco and then head off to the National Museum, 2 blocks behind FCC, this involves avoiding the various flooded roads along the way. Museum has no air con, so is very hot and humid, and rather anoyingly has many hawkers trying to sell flowers to give to the gods (whilst Ieuan respects other peoples beliefs, this seems to be more about money making as far as we can see, and it would surely be better to charge a higher entrance fee??). The majority of exhibits are statues and carvings. Louise tries to get some pictures of the beautiful gardens and the buddhist monks, only for Ieuan to lean out of an open window and hiss loudly "come on".
Get back and packed stuff up, trawled the internet for the usual nonsense, prepare our selves by getting additional mosquito repellant at the pharmacy, before drinks and our final meal at the FCC. Ieuan has disappointing chicken curry and Louise has nice pizza, a bottle of nice Spanish red and some Sangria helps it all go down. Then it's off to bed as we have an early start in the morning.
Got up and went for breakfast, were given wrong menu as we're confused with non-guests. Have a different fruit salad today, no dragon fruit, but did have delicious apple. After breakfast we shower and Ieuan dispatched for birthday present shopping before the usual scrum of beggars start congregating at the entrance. Met up in internet cafe and sold another finished book, amazingly though the pile of our books keeps growing though. Have a drink at Fresco before heading for a stroll up the street, looked in a gift shop on the way back and Louise got a lovely silk bag and purse for birthday, plus a couple of other presents for other people. Stopped at a bar called Metro for Ieuan to have a delicios Thai beef salad for lunch and to escape the heavy rain. Rain calmed down after 45 minutes so we waded home amid numerous offers of "tuk tuk sir"
Dry off in the bar whilst Lou gets goats cheese wrap from Fresco and then head off to the National Museum, 2 blocks behind FCC, this involves avoiding the various flooded roads along the way. Museum has no air con, so is very hot and humid, and rather anoyingly has many hawkers trying to sell flowers to give to the gods (whilst Ieuan respects other peoples beliefs, this seems to be more about money making as far as we can see, and it would surely be better to charge a higher entrance fee??). The majority of exhibits are statues and carvings. Louise tries to get some pictures of the beautiful gardens and the buddhist monks, only for Ieuan to lean out of an open window and hiss loudly "come on".
Get back and packed stuff up, trawled the internet for the usual nonsense, prepare our selves by getting additional mosquito repellant at the pharmacy, before drinks and our final meal at the FCC. Ieuan has disappointing chicken curry and Louise has nice pizza, a bottle of nice Spanish red and some Sangria helps it all go down. Then it's off to bed as we have an early start in the morning.
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