We arrived in town late on Monday evening and used Teds guide book to find good value rooms for two nights.Each room cost eight pounds and so we pushed the boat out and had one each.
We spent our day shopping in the local market under instruction of our cookery teacher,then we learnt how to prepair some of the local dishes. The ingredients were so fresh and unusal to our western eyes it we good to finally have a local explain what the items were that we had been seeing in our food for the last few weeks.I hope that I can find some of the same food items when I get home.It was fun to be able to cook again, it has been some months since I have had a kitchen to work in.
After eating all of the dishes which had been prepaired we were stuffed. The first job we did was book our place on the bus back to Bangkok, a journey WHICH WILL LAST ALL OF TONIGHT. THE SECOND THING ON THE AGENDA WAS TO GET SOME EXCERSISE, SO WE FOUND THE TOURIST HOTEL AND JOINED THE GYM. AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER WE BOTH FELT BETTER, IT IS FUNNY HOW YOU GET USED TO DOING SOME ACTIVITY EVERY DAY AND IF YOU DO NOT DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL YOU MISS IT.
OUR ROOMS ARE ADJACENT TO THE LOCAL JAZZ CLUB SO WE HAVE HAD LIVE MUSIC AT THE END OF THE DAY , WHICH TED ASSURES ME IS OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD. I HOPE TED GETS IN TO PLAYING IN A BAND AT UNIVERSITY, HE WOULD REALLY ENJOY PLAYING JAZZ TO A LIVE AUDIENCE.
OFF TO CLEAN THE BIKE AND CHECK OUT THE LOCAL TEMPLES.
Hi Mark
What wonderful descriptions and reflections you have given us all over the last few days and it fact on your whole adventure – thank you for sharing at least a bit of it. Congratulations on all the miles travelled on two wheels.
You have clearly loved having Ted as your cycling and travel companion, it sounds an excellent partnership, it is great that in a way he has started and ended the cycling element of your trip with you and I am sure you have both benefitted from the whole experience. I’m not sure you banked on getting your credit card out for his onward adventure – but I think it is money well spent!
I think that you must be on the long bus jurney to Bangkok as we speak, I am sure that that was not the most comfortable experience, in fact it was probably quite scary with the Thai driving!
We have just had a weekend away in Torquay, not very exotic, but good fun! The starlings in the garden are practically churping and singing their heads off which is a real joy to hear – the clocks changed at the weekend so we now have lighter nights which is great for the humans and the wildlife. Now all we need is some warm sun – maybe you can bring it our way on your return??!
I hope the new suit you find waiting for you in Bangkok fits OK – given your height and extra material used I reckon that they charged you 30% more!
I hope you last few days away are good and your glimse at India gives you a reason to return at another time
I am so looking forward to seeing you, take care
Lots of love ClareXX
Hi Clare,
Great to hear your new and views.
I hope you are both well and that life is in balance, not to much playing and to to much work. I met a guy yesterday who was a bit out there, we had a chat and one of his strongly held views was that a 4 day week would improve our sex lives. He felt that all the people who worked in London – took the Tube- worked too hard had no chance of fitting in sex to their schedule.He was a bit unsual but good to talk to.
I am checking out one of Bangkok`s Jazz clubs which is very relaxing, I am in China Town and so Birds nest and Sharks fin are on the menus.
Si is picking me up from the airport on Thursday, I am very glad that he is doing this, its a bit of a cycle ride from Terminal 5 to Cambridge.
I will pack up the bike and then on to Delhi.
Lots of Love
Mark.