Sarah managed to find a “40% off” deal for a resort in Ko Lanta, which
she booked with literally a second to spare as the minivan revved its engines
to pull away from Trang.
Arriving in the evening, we settled very comfortably into
the Pilanta Resort & Spa hotel. For a couple that has spent a
month, through our own choice, in very basic accommodation I must indulge you
on the specifics of our new home. Firstly, it was clean as a whistle. The
air conditioning was pure luxury, as was the presence of WARM water. How alien
it was to us not too have a cold shower, step out and immediately start
sweating again! We were elated to find a bath, those avid readers will recall
the last mini-bath Chris sat in in Madrid. Furthermore it was a jacuzzi bath.
Layers of grime arose on the bubbles as I sank blissfully into the foamy waters.
The sheets, without patches, tears and gritty sand deposits, felt as soft
as a cloud. We slept like logs and woke up revitalised.
After doing some chores, such as clothes washing, we relaxed by the
pool and updated our blog. Fraser similarly wrote up his diary. The astute of
you might have noticed that we had not had any connection since 16th December
and so you've been blessed with a rush of posts over the past few days covering
the past few weeks. We apologise for this hiatus, and thank our dedicated blog
follows for their patience! Normal service might resume, technological
connections dependant. A few of you have asked who writes the blogs. The blog
updates are each written by either Sarah or Chris, we’ll leave it up to you to
guess whom.
The resort was pretty empty, hence the price reduction but the
facilities were excellent. We swam in the swimming pool of emeralds whilst
drangonflies whirred overhead.
The Christmas Eve entertainment was a 'special dinner'. They did
their best to serve the nine tables a western style menu. We acknowledged
Christmas by donning flashing Santa hats.
I don't know if you can remember the comedic episode of Only Fools
and Horses where pregnant Raquel is cajoled into performing with the Elvis style
impersonator named Tony? The pinnacle is the performance of "Cwying"
by Tony and Raquel and the first, dramatic, belting out of the song's chorus!
Well, we had a similar experience, when the Thai acoustic guitar player belting
out his version of the Tina Turner Classic "Rolling on the River".
Which translated as "Lolling, lolling,..Lolling on the Liver"! We
clapped rapturously at the end.
Most restaurants close about 9pm, and the guests retired on
Christmas Eve about 9.30pm leaving us alone. Fraser and Chris played darts and
then challenged the barman to a few games of connect 4 (which he won outright).
We were very pleased to be able to Skype brother John and Amy. It had been too
long without hearing John's dry sense of humour and invented a new international,
long distance drinking game!
Merry Christmas!! xxx
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