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Another video index page has now been fully updated : www.wanowandthen.com/video-index-birds.html
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The Abandoned Places and Adventures video page is now up and running. There will probably be more videos added to it but for now everything on there should be working : www.wanowandthen.com/video-index-abandoned.html
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The Attractions video page is finally finished :) www.wanowandthen.com/video-index-attractions.html
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Tomorrow marks quite a difference in this channel because tomorrow's video is the last one I have shot of anything in W.A. Yes, for the first time in years I have no local content ready to go and not much chance of making any more for a while. Quite a sad day for the channel. I will have some holiday videos taken in Phuket to keep things running for a few weeks but they are not core videos for the channel and would normally come out as a Wednesday video. I am still working away on finishing the Attractions video index so you might find some content there that you haven't seen before. Hopefully the channel will get back to normal eventually but I have another trip to Phuket next month and then we have some hospital issues to deal with. We may even miss out on doing our usual wildflower spring trip... It is all rather depressing.
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With the holiday over we come back to reality and the first thing is dealing with this ...
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Well the first Phuket trip is now over but I am heading back in June to stay at the Cape Panwa Hotel. Quite a different area so there will be some content coming up featuring those trips. Only 1 video left with W.A. content at the moment as we have had some difficulty getting out to film - getting old sucks!
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Day 13
Brekky as usual but as we planned a big lunch, today it was a very light one.
Headed off around 11am for about a 15 minute drive to 2 Kan Eng Seafood Restaurant. This is an iconic place set right on the beach and the perfect place for a seafood lunch.
We knew it was going to be heavy on the pocket but we did it more for the experience that anything else.
On the menu was lobster (actually crayfish), large (very large) prawns, squid fried in ink, soft shell crab and seafood fried rice.
For us this was a once in a lifetime meal, something we will never do again because the cost was so high.
If we had avoided the very high end crayfish and prawns, the coast would have been quite reasonable and other dishes on the menu were not too expensive but the cost of just those two items were frightening.
Even so, it was worth it for a once in a lifetime experience and it really was the perfect place to eat seafood.
We still have one full day before we head back to Perth but tomorrow is likely to be just a quiet day around the hotel and packing up ready for the flight on Tuesday.
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Day 12
Relaxed brekky, which is normal by now, a wander around parts of the hotel we hadn't seen before and then a swim before heading out to the local shops in the evening to get dinner.
An unusually hot and sunny day made it perfect for getting some nice shots of the hotel.
Since the day was so hot it was the perfect time for another dip in the pool.
In the evening we wandered down to the local shops and what is becoming our favourite dinner hang-out, the Chill Grill.
Then round the corner to an ice cream stall where I bought a durian ice cream and filmed the rather unusual method used to make these deserts.
A very tasty and inexpensive meal and back to the hotel. Over all, a very relaxing day.
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Day 11
Leg still sore as hell but there is no way I am going to let it ruin the trip.
Down to brekky as usual and then a rest until mid-afternoon before grabbing a car north to Patong Beach.
The fare varied on going and coming from 162 to 156 baht.
Stopped at Junceylon, the big shopping centre in Patong and found the prices there were pretty much the crazy tourist prices we saw last time. Bought a drink and left.
Had a quick look at Central across the road but that was just more of the same.
Don't buy stuff in this area unless you have no choice. Even the money changers were giving poorer rates than at Karon Beach.
We then took a walk along Bangla Road to the beach. Bangla is the centre of the sleazy side of Patong. Bars, bar girls (and bar boys), loud music and drunken obnoxious white tourists. A place to keep away from after dark.
We wandered along the beach looking for an old friend, what once was Patong Merlin and is now the Marriott. We stayed there in 1994 and 2001. What a different place it was back then.
I would never consider staying in Patong these days, noisy all the time and over priced for everything. Touts annoying you every few yards and just not a nice place to be unless you are young and want to party hard.
Karon is so much better for people our age.
We eventually found the old hotel that is now almost hidden behind a horrible mess of concrete and noise that poses as a restaurant. What a revolting thing to put in front of such a graceful old hotel.
We stopped for dinner and took a few pictures for old times sake and then made our way back to Karon.
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Day 10
Woke about 5am with a cramp in my right leg that would just not let go. It took several minutes of jumping around and swearing rather a lot before it stopped. By the time it went away, the damage was done. Walking was very painful. I did manage to hobble down to breakfast and back again but after that the day was a complete wipe out.
I do take pills to try and combat this as cramps a pretty common for me, but I must not have been taking enough or drinking enough water.
The hotel staff were very helpful, loaning me a hot water bottle so that I can use it on my leg and giving me a tube of cream something like Deep Heat to rub in to the area.
I hope this doesn't last too long because it is very debilitating. No new pics today so just a few older shots that I haven't posted before.
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