Friday 22nd February 2008

We decided last night that we would leave Hua Hin this morning and move onto our next place, which is called Cha-am. It's not far from Bangkok and means we can go a day early to sort out our visas. After breakfast we gathered all our things, said goodbye to our host, and then walked round to the bus stop. We'd been told that you can get a taxi to Cha-am for about 400 Baht, but the people at the guest house told us this morning that the bus only costs 20 Baht. In the end, it was no contest! The bus was pretty cool. It was just like an old bus from home, except it had a REALLY loud stereo - which was blasting out some funky music for the whole journey.

When we got off on the highway that runs past Cha-am, we didn't have a clue where we were going - so we just followed our noses and soon found the beach. We wandered along the front asking after a couple of rooms and then found one for only 200 Baht (about £3), which we snapped up straight away. We spent the rest of the morning walking North along the beach, and it went on for miles and miles - we even joked at one point that we were gonna be in Bangkok soon - it was that far! By the time we'd got back we were knackered so we gathered our beach things and went down to relax. After i'd done some reading and Nikki had had a snooze we played with our new frisbee... we're still useless - I even managed to hit some people today!

This evening, we went for a meal in a restaurant we'd seen that sold really cheap beer. When we walked past and seen that it was empty we felt sorry for them, but when we tried their food we understood why! Mine wasn't too bad, but Nikki's wasn't very good, so we finished our beers - ate as much of Nikki's as we could and then went and got some more food from one of the street hawkers. That, thankfully, was much better and Nikki loved it! Cha-am was actually pretty nice, it had the vibe of a good old fashioned seaside town - plus we enjoyed it because it could be the last time we see a beach before we visit Zoe in Weston-Super-Mare!

Bangkok... here we come!