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The story from the south March 27, 2007

Filed under: travel — janesjourneys @ 3:12 am

I’m not sure that May and Simple American are still sitting there waiting for my story or not but to not keep them sitting too long, here is the story!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/19/news/thai.php

Oh! and another story that I had been helping and working on… about Thailand. Thanks to everyone who gave me answers which some were used in this article. Thanks!!!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/20/news/thai.php

Enjoy!

WAIT!!! I got tagged!!!

 

Hello from the restive south! March 19, 2007

Filed under: travel — janesjourneys @ 11:22 am

Hello!!!
I’m here in the South of Thailand… in a hotel in Pattani, I will spend a night here. I flew to Hat yai this morning and drove to Yala province… into the troubled area where there is curfew at night!

I just wanna let you know that I’m fine and safe here… We planned to go back to Bangkok this evening but as we had an unlucky day today that made us behid the schedule, so we couldn’t drive back to airport as it’s too late and too dangerous to be on the road after 5 pm., and that’s the reason why I’m staying here in the hotel.

I haven’t reserved the plane ticket yet! I should! Ok! Gotta go!
See you in Bangkok!

 

Ladies Rule!!! March 17, 2007

Filed under: travel — janesjourneys @ 9:47 am

Last night I went to a “Exclusively for ladies only” bar with friends… It was my first time going to a place like that, it’s so interesting… I didn’t know it was next to one of my favourite Thai restaurants! Now I know… maybe I should go more often!

I’ve heard that on Friday night there is a place which is also exclusively for ladies near my house, maybe that’s the reason why the pub I went last night was a bit empty. I had only one rum&coke… (do not dare to order other cocktails as my friend got too sour margarita!)

Asking myself as I’m not a lesbian, going to a lesbian bar is quite interesting. I felt safe there though…and to find the restroom was so easy, no chance to walk into a men’s room! (by mistake or intention).

When we left the place around 9 pm., I saw many ladies in the pub… maybe next time I should go a little late… I want to see the pub that’s full of ladies only! And wanna see how they have fun in this kind of place!

’til then…

 

Lunch @ Huahin March 11, 2007

Filed under: food, photography — janesjourneys @ 4:36 pm

On day 2, we drove to Huahin to find another beach to go… we actually did the beach hopping last week! After we got the place to stay, we started looking for food! We found one restaurant not far from our hotel, so we decided to try…. and these are our food!!! Mmmm…. yummy!

Well…. today’s post is only about food, so I’m not going to tell you about the beach or anything else. Let’s talk about food!!


First dish.. Somtam pu-ma, there is nothing related to Puma… not the animal or the sport wear… but it’s spicy papaya salad with sea crab. Oh…. they made it really goooooooood!


Second dish… Somtam Thai, right! we ordered 2 kinds of somtam because we wanted to try the ordinary one which is this one, Thai style somtam and the one with crab (above). It turned out really good…both of them! Ahhh….. ooooohh….. mmmmm


Third dish… Tom saab kra-dook moo, it’s spicy soup with cartilage bone (pork). It sounds weird, I don’t eat the cartilage…only meat please! But for those who love the cartilage, I recommend this dish, they made really good soup..very spicy too! *sweating*


Fourth dish… Larb gai, spicy chicken salad with roasted rice (crushed). You may wonder now that every dish is spicy… these people are crazy! I can say…YES! We’re crazy, we love spicy food!!! and you can see why? Don’t they look so good? Delicious?


Last dish… Pla muek tod kra-tiem, deep fried squid with garlic. We loved it! The only reason we loved this dish because the golden chopped garlic…. treasure… Ahhhh… (you don’t wanna be close to me when I said Ahhhh.. after having this dish!) Crispy, chewy, a little salty…. yummy!

 

Cha-am&Hua hin trip (Day 1) March 7, 2007

Filed under: photography, travel — janesjourneys @ 1:53 pm
*The main room*
*The Entrance (in the old days)*
*Sleeping Buddha*


Last long weekend, we went on a road trip with P Toy, P Hui to Cha-am and Huahin. On the first day we planned to stay in one resort on the beach in Petchaburi but as we didn’t book the room in advance and all of them were full!!!! Can you believe that? We drove from first beach…all resorts were fully booked, the second beach (about 15 km. from the first one) was also fully booked!!! and we kept searching, looking for any available room… but had no luck!

We ended up on Cha-am beach which was too crowded and that’s NOT what we wanted, but we had no choice. We found 2 rooms at a guest house in front of the busiest area of Cha-am beach, the price was a little too expensive but it’s long holiday and we didn’t book it….and most important we were too tired to search for better. We decided to stay there but the rooms were not available until 9 pm. that night, so we had to hang out on the beach for the whole afternoon. We’ve got the rooms around 8.30 pm after having such a good and (expensive) seafood dinner!.

I had a bad headache all afternoon and evening, so after I took a shower, I went straight to bed and fell asleep right away….

That’s all for day 1, to have more side stories, please wait for Jeremy to write more on his blog! Here I have some photos of the cave we visited before going to the beach as it’s on our way to the beach.

Enjoy!

 

The beaches were nice but I will tell you later! March 5, 2007

Filed under: travel — janesjourneys @ 4:50 pm


Yes! It’s late and I’m going to sleep….
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More photos and stories tomorrow, ok? Bleh!

Night night!

 

Off to the beach! March 2, 2007

Filed under: travel — janesjourneys @ 4:23 pm

First of all..I would like to thank THHC™ master, L B for giving me new design of my THHC™ logo… HUGS for you!

And I have to say sorry as I’ve been busy and blank head for the last few days, so I didn’t make any report yet! YET! I promise I will post it immediately after I come back from the beach!

Oh..Yeah… speaking of going to the beach… We are going to the beach this long weekend. I will be back on Monday, I hope it’s not too late for the THHC™ report. Plus I will post some photos from the trip too….

So… please be patient with me. Thanks everyone!

Happy weekend and Happy holiday!