Back in Bangkok was much more simple, although welcomed by the usual marijuana ascisc, lady bum bum and pem pem, me everything seems familiar, relaxing and beautiful.
will also be on the quiet area where is my guest house, just simple everyday thai and some tourists in the narrow streets, a haven of tranquility in the heart of Bangkok!
have started the World Cup and every day the streets are infested with people scattered in front of the TV, play Italy and I decide to visit the children's library trash.
There are only two of 'them', the son of Panzano and blues and is rarely a middle-aged Scottish actor in thailand ... they are friends of the master who has suddenly dematerialized by the city, nobody knows where he is finished, it needed to be alone, maybe he went to the north tell me.
The Italy game is close to ridiculous, and while the two are not silent a moment, I remain riveted to the TV, cursing in several languages, I feel that now is a global drama.
I'll leave the funny guys giving us an appointment for the next day, but closed the next day and the next to the library are dismantling the new owners, I ask the Chinese restaurant next to what happened and he makes a strange nod your head and hands, kaput, the small British dream was shattered.
bad, despite the rampant Trasher was a nice little place.
The days go quiet and I try to plan the next steps of my journey to the south, the areas to be visited are the same for everyone, Pattaya, Ko Samet, Ko Samui, Phuket, Ko Phi Phi ect but I do not like this ride ... luckily I came across the story of Among the tripmagazine which tells of his trip made on the fly to Malaysia.
decide to proceed slowly and then southward through the coast of the Gulf of Thailand.
In my absolute evenings Khaosan Road, which is slowly being repopulated with tourists after the disastrous days of clashes between government and red shirts, t ra a game and a beer I know Julien, Parisian chef just returned twenty-eight 2 months of Cambodia, French and other globetrotting.
He was struck (not only in nature) from Cambodia and decided to come back and open a beach bar, how they are different points of view of a traveler ... given the results of their national airline to do it each other, exchanging travel advice on India and Nepal that they are about to visit, and areas to the south that interest me.
They give me lots of info on how to avoid plagues tourist trash kid , advising me to visit some places frequented but far from chaos western .
With all the info remedied, and a book in Italian Terzani discovered in my GH and subtracted amicably, I move to the south, namely Prachuap Khiri Khan.
The train is a pleasant surprise, comfortable and clean, only drawback the mob of vendors each minute passed between the cars and have headquarters in the restaurant, where if not consumed in StarLite I do not even sit down to smoke!
Fortunately I was invited by the Malaysian kind and distinguished gentleman at his table.
refer to the real lives in Australia and clearly has Chinese origins.
We get to talk about his business, family values, my "complex" way of life, which for a Chinese is not easy to understand, how can you live without storing thousands of notes and have a family pack and faithful??
And then people are like you, devoted to work, sacrifice, the total denial D'me money ....
Eh, what do I know? I am a little 'live for a few months and just did not think ...
No problem, call me when you arrive in Australia I have 3, 4 and stores need people like you, I'll open one right?
But really I would have withdrawn from society at the time and commitment to the constant "I do not understand what am I doing here", you could not even talk about that in 3 or 4 decades??
I'm counting on you??
Nothing is never realized, ok ... I'll see them
Arrival at the station, a garden with a pretty little house, and no wonder tuc tuc, motobike taxi or waiting, only a slight drizzle.
I set out towards the main street in search of GH reported by Among asking around if you know it.
but few understand me smile and greet me kindly.
A boy and knows it takes the bike and smiling with me, great J .
bell'alloggio is an expensive but for my parameters, immediately after a shower and do a tour of the country after I lost in only three ways I meet randomly in a beautiful Thai style wooden house completely restored, is the Maggie's Guest House is run by a lovely couple, Martin naval engineer who now teaches English in schools and Lilly, his lovely Thai wife.
He shows me the house, six rooms are nice and cozy up to 150 baht, three shared bathrooms, a guest kitchen, wi fi, water, laundry and everything else for free.
him that tomorrow will be their first guest Italian, because you have a few days over the business from a friend for me ... simply the best accommodation in 9 months.
The next day, placed me in my beautiful new home, they are very polite and helpful, rent a bike and around the town.
is overlooking the sea on a small bay full of colorful fishing boats, the town itself has nothing special but the atmosphere is delightful, relaxing and friendly with a small Buddhist temple that dominates, by 'top of his infernal stairs infested macaques murderers, the whole gulf.
The first day I shot just about thirty km bike heading towards the fishing village, the national park and the military base, despite the bad weather .
To reach the other beaches such as Ao Manao, they must cross the air base Air Base Wing 5 ... ... it seems to be in Hawaii, a military that would be the envy of any resort, with military smiling, lush vegetation and atmosphere you desire ... crosses, including the airstrip, to reach the beaches and the most beautiful places, you find yourself on the lagoon with pine forests, restaurants, schools, parks and children's Bazaar, "only" for Thai tourists that is zero, can be counted on the fingers of one hand, a true paradise.
The first day was exciting, exhausting for the bike tour, but wonderful, still does not seem true that this beautiful place is not "polluted" by mass tourism and I am overjoyed.
On my return I found an email from the scamper of Daniel, the Australian woman known a month ago, is back to Thailand to work in a month sold all his clothes and went back for new orders, has ten days off and head to Ko Samui for a holiday, if they are over there we meet, my itinerary illustrate the idea of \u200b\u200bexploring this part of costs before you go or not, on any expensive islands, after a brief discussion decided to join and share with me part of this route, in all these years has never visited the coast outside the tourist routes.
Well, after all these months of solitude will not be easy to share a piece of travel with another human being, but it will at least split the cost here in the south are a bit 'higher ... well, we hope you wear your ear plugs, I do not think my performances have dropped from baritone night J .
Andrea, Prachuap Khiri Khan
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