and the tales continues ....................

Well Bruce has decided that we should experience some of the local cuisine and the street was the first port of call. Bruce decided on a noodle dish on the left hand side of the road and a deep fired southernish chicken dish on the other. Needless to say that my road crossing abilities are still being refined and had it not been for his quick thinking I would have ended up spread over the front of a moped lol.

I have to say the food was great, but without the local knowledge I would not have ventured out to the street stalls.

Yesterday we headed out for a trip around the countryside off the island and our first port of call was the monkey temple. These little fellas are very friendly, not at all like the ones in China and they just played around at your feet and sometimes on your shoulders in the attempt to get to the bananas and peanuts, but never once did we feel threatened, in fact when you took the men out of the equation the females and babies were great. No wallet pinching, no phone stealing all good fun.

It's mine, no mine

At the same cave complex I came across one of my ancestors having a nap

 

 

Last night we went to one of Bruce's favorite restaurants called "Sunrise" how appropriate lol, and the food was amazing. We had a Pineapple and chicken salad, doesn't sound interesting but was great, followed by the chili challenge which was a pork mince and noodle with mega hot chili but was a real taste treat and was not about the heat but how it all worked together. The chef at this restaurant was the chef from Phuket Sheraton and knows his business and one of the most popular dishes was the spag carbonara which was toooooo die for. Ron had the green curry and none of that went back lol. After dinner it was off to Suring Beach for a stroll to walk off some of the calories.

 

Today we have hired a driver to take us around the island more on that in the morning.