Thailand Pictures
Still being a little drunk (and Shay still being a lot drunk) I decide today will be a day of flirtation with Jen, our skinny, pale but cute Leeds lass. I give her a massage on the shoulders with the edge of my passport while we are waiting for the truck at the border crossing, which she says is nice. She tells me that now that I am an Advanced Open Water Diver, I am in with a chance of consideration….
Again the border crossing is very quick for the people, but slow for the truck. This is the last border we will have to do with the truck though, with it being shipped back after it drops us at the Singapore border in 10 days or so.
Belgian Sam (perhaps now the prefix is unnecessary), who is now feeling somewhat fragile, regales of events after I had left last night. They had gone to the ‘Pink bar’, where they found a sort of Karaoke going on, except the all female singers seemed to be ‘professional’. Shay and Sam decide to invade the stage to try their hand at it, only to find that all the words were in Chinese script, and the songs were Chinese too. There follows a bad and probably insulting take off of singing in Chinese (Mandarin?, perhaps not), with Sam inviting the audience to ‘come on, everybody!’.
After the border crossing, it is another few hours of drive time, which I pass sleepily, until we reach the ferry port to go to Langkawi, our next destination. The ferry is comfortable, although we are forced to watch an awful movie that was filmed on the island (and the ferry). It’s like a Malaysian remake of ‘The Three Stooges’, for those of you who have any idea what that was.
After the ferry, there is another 40 minutes or so on a bus to our hotel. When we get off the bus, I ask Jen which room we are in. ‘Not tonight’, she says.
Later I meet Gary and Laurie for dinner. To go to a place by the beach, but have to move tables to avoid the over bearing sound of a local band on a stage singing soft rock covers in Malay tinged English. I consider requesting some Black Sabbath numbers but decide I already know the answer. Myself and Laurie have Barracuda fillets, which are very good, but a little on the economy size. Gary’s meal doesn’t quite satisfy him either, so we head off to share a pizza down the road. We end up having two between three, myself having a Quattro Stagioni with pepperoni, olives, mushrooms and gorgonzola. The base is a little soft, but basically sound, and the flavours are good. 8/10.
Dessert is a biscuit base indulgent banoffee pie. mmmm
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