Easy Day

Saturday, nothing planned for today. Lounge by pool after breakfast. The Duke needs his i-pad charged, so takes the door key off the power card for the rooms electricity, so locking the door with power on. Internet has been rather patchy since the storm, really only available near the reception. Then a couple of guys turn up to change router, which is located above pool house. It takes them a while, but now we have a full signal. Lunchtime arrives, we decide to walk down to a restaurant the hotel manager has recommended. Where’s the key” the Dame asks, “oh it was in my swimming trunks”, but the key is not in them now. The Duke is all showered and dressed for lunch. On walking round the pool he spots the key on the bottom. Back into trunks. Not quite Jacques Cousteau, the Duke comes up coughing and spluttering, he is unable to retrieve the key. With the Dame directing him, he tries to move it to the shallow end with his foot. This could take a while. Our neighbour is watching and comes over to ask if he can help, “yes please” one dive and they have the key, what a nice man. Off to lunch. Quite a walk down the busy road, sharing the verge with the scooters. We don’t like the look of the restaurant and decide on the 7-11 for takeaway lunch. No joy there and buying alcohol is prohibited between 2-5. On our way back we see a bakery and coffee shop. It sells very nice bread and cakes. The Duke has a slice of Banana cake, with two espresso’s. As we near our bungalow our diving hero and his wife are leaving for home. They were from Germany as many of the other guests are. Oh no, our peaceful pool area has been shattered. A large family led by Dad have taken over the pool. As Dad dives in well sort off, will there be any water left. Along with that they are blasting out some music, not sure if they are locals. We did need to cool off after the walk so the aircon is needed. Spend some time in room catching with emails etc now we have full signal.
Back to Night Market for some shopping food and drink. Surprisingly it seems fairly quite for a Saturday. The Christmas Lights have been turned on, did Kylie Minogue pop over to flip the switch? We pass the club that has a cabaret on the pavement, eight Lady Boys all looking like 60’s Hollywood glamour girls. We ate in a restaurant opposite the market called Takieng baked fish with herbs was delicious, but the herbs blew your head off, followed by prawns, and squid. One minus, the beer wasn’t cold first time i have had beer in an ice bucket.