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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 πŸ™‚

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…

 

 

 

Day 146 – Let the chilling commence

We were thinking about whether to actually continue to blog for the next 11 days, since this Thailand trip is in a way not part of our home to home journey. Then again, it is what we are doing within that year, even if Rocinante had to stay tucked away back in KL.

limestone formations are all around.

limestone formations are all around.

So for the first time in our relationship, we are attempting to have a “normal” holiday. Like, staying in one place and not try something physically crazy or weird. Just a room, a pool and time to go by.Β For the most part at least πŸ™‚

After a decadently long breakfast, we organised some wheels for our time here. We could not abstain from bikes entirely now, could we? Also, the place is cheap but a bit out of the way, so we need those wheels to get around. Unfortunately, no Honda Wave or any other (semi)-manual bike for me. Well, the 110cc automatic will have to do.

first LunchWe went out for lunch and to pick up some cash – which I should have done yesterday at the airport but have not. We had to go the 20

km to Ao Nang, the next tourist town down the coast towards Krabi. Once again, we were re-assured that there is nothing but ATMs and maybe other / cheap infrastructure that would hold us at these places.

We got back and hopped into the pool for the first time.