THE 3RD WEEKEND

It has been another lovely weekend for me and Dale. Friday morning,"the Family", all 10 of us, went into Trang at 7.30am for Dinsan-Thai Yum Cha, which was 'interesting'. Enough said! Then we all climbed into the mini bus, and set off for Krabi. Next on the agenda was another visit to hot springs which were in the most delightful setting in woodland under a small waterfall. The water cascaded over us. It was beautiful. By the time that was over it was lunch time, so off we all went to Tesco. Tesco is the main supermarket over here, and the one in Krabi is Enormous. Following a very pleasant lunch, we were in the minibus again, and heading to the very famous Tiger Temple. Melissa, Jack and I climbed to the top of the rock face to see the statue of the Buddha. There were 1287 steps in all. I believe it took us about half an hour, and the temp. was in the high 30's. There was a lot of perspiration flowing by the time I reached the top! But it was worth it, the view was spectacular. A guy from Bristol took a photo of us on Melissa's camera to prove that we had made it. (I had left mine back at home base) It was 4pm when we arrived down to the bottom of the steps. Jack then drove Dale and I into Krabi and dropped us off at the hotel where we were staying for the weekend, and drove Melissa to the Long Boats for her to go over to Railay Beach to meet a friend for the weekend.
Again Dale and I had picked a lovely place to stay. We decided on a quiet weekend. On Saturday we took the local bus into Ao Nang, and went swimming and a little bit of sun baking, some lunch, another swim, then back to the hotel. We walked into town for dinner, then back for a good nights sleep in another very comfortable bed. Today we did little again. Walked into town, had a coffee, then at midday, caught the bus back to Trang. It's a two hour bus ride. Now we are waiting to meet 8 new volunteers who arrived on Saturday. They have been to the beach today, which is just what we did 3 weeks ago. How time flies!!!