Hua Hin | cyclethailand

Food poisoning last night meant waking up late and feeling a bit weak.

While Hua Hin has made a lot of nothing much Prachuap has not made much of what it has and it has more. It is a nice small town with attractive beach and coast line.

Went to veg cafe next door for brunch and met 70 year old hyperactive American who had escaped twice from a Colombian prison in 1970s. He has written a book on his drug smuggling, prison and escape. One does not tend to meet drug smugglers and prison escapees in the local cafe at home.

town at night

Thought, unwisely, to adjust the gears to stop some slight rubbing I should have learnt from previous experience at anything even remotely mechanical. An hour later the gears did not work at all but after watching a few utube videos on how to adjust gears and another hour I managed to get the gears back to as they were previously. and went out to celebrate. I met two more English teachers. I wonder how many are in Thailand. One was from Ireland and the other from Yorkshire but with a few, Sorry, what was that’ I understood most of what they said. Paul told me about the Rohingya extremist coming from Burma to southern Thailand and causing problems. There are not any as far as I know! Barry had just build a house with three bed rooms for £25,000 which was lucky as he and his wife were not getting on.

Later watched a Frenchman try and teach a Chinese girl English. ‘ I have name

84km/5.5hrs. Tried to get on small roads and one person even drew a map for me but tricky with some many roads and kept ending up back at the motorway so after an hour gave up and cycled the hard shoulder of the motorway. Not so bad as got further out of town but not ideal.
The better route if one can find the roads is 3177-4033-4028.

Problem with weakness and lack of sensitivity in outside of right hand due to holding handle bars fro long periods of time in same position.

Took a detour to see beach in Chan Am but not too interesting.

Hua Hin is a middle aged holiday resort and packed full of tourists, restaurants and accommodation and is more expensive than most places in Thailand and of course generally less friendly. Tourists are milk cows and viewed as a group rather than individuals. The big chains are here such as Sheridon, Hilton and Intercontinental with golf and spars.

Kings House GH has some character due to Dutch owners furniture and carpets in rooms collected from places he lived around the world. Rooms from 500B. Under this for AC room not possible in Hua Hin. Owner likes to talk and bit of a bullshitter. Has a pool that the large owner likes to cool off in leaving some room for a couple of others.

Night market is geared to tourists even more than in other towns and not very interesting. Met some Filipino tourists and listened to a Filipino band that was not bad and on my request avoided some of the clique classics and sang some Queen although they did not attempt the the Pistols. Lots of sex tourism here with the usual rubbish.

Irish bar selling Shepherd’s pie but good band and an English teacher from Cardiff who was sure he could hear my Cardiff accent.