Day 155 – Hellos and good-byes

Our last day in Thailand had come. Well, the last day on this special holiday trip to visit Flo’s dad. And it had a bit of a surprise for us: We got to see Celia and Tigg, our lovely hosts from Darwin!

Lunch with Tigg and Celia

Lunch with Tigg and Celia

Those two had started their own trip in December and we missed them in Kuala Lumpur by a day! By now, they had ridden through Malaysia already and stayed in Ao Nang for a couple of days which is close enough to the Discovery Resort to take the scooter out for a visit. So we made a lunch date with a meeting point at the beach and all was well. Not quite. After having driven to Ao Nang on the scooter for about 45min, we couldn’t make any sense of Celia’s description of the location. Searching back and forth at the beach for them, we were about to go home and be very frustrated when Flo suddenly realized that Ao Nang has two beaches. And if you go to the right one, the description actually made sense and we found them!

Reunion photo

Reunion photo

It was really good to catch up with them on their own trip. For now, they are taking it slowly as Celia sprained her ankle on the second day of riding and needs some time to heal before riding a bike again. So we had some yummy lunch and then took some “reunion” photos at the beach. If all goes well, we will meet up again in Thailand to cross Myanmar in a couple of months.

After the short beach walk, Flo and I headed back to the Discovery Resort as it was also our last day with Flo’s dad. Arriving at 4pm, our little lunch date had actually taken us 5 hours: About 1 hour of riding each way and hour of looking at the wrong beach had left us with two hours to catch up. Not such a good quota.

Last dinner with Flo's family also known as the Hubis :)

Last dinner with Flo’s family also known as the Hubis 🙂

Dinner was lovely and I had vegetables with cashew nuts for the last time. Luckily, packing was very quick as we hadn’t taken a lot of things to Thailand. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 8.20am tomorrow from Krabi airport so we needed to get on our airport transport at 6am in the morning…