Last Stop Nai Yang....

We called into Graham and Severin's place this morning to say goodbye as we are going to Nai Yang for the rest of our time here. Tamara was up and about too as she is going to stay with her friends in Kata so we said a final farewell to her aswell. Helen came to pick us up at 9.30am, she has been kind enough to offer to drive us to Nai Yang. We have offered to pay for an extra room for her and Megan, her daughter, to stay for the night but she needs to get home and do some jobs so she has decided to come back tomorrow instead of staying. The offer stood all day as she changed her mind a few times and almost came but it wasn't to be, it will be great to spend the day with them tomorrow. We checked into our hotel and the room is quite big, plenty comfortable for the two of us and we rested and watched some TV before deciding to head out for something to eat. In usual fashion, just as we stepped out it started raining so we went back to our room and had some left over fruit and sweet sticky rice instead. It wasn't long before the rain stopped and the sun came shining through so we walked up the beach street of Nai Yang. It is a very small and quiet place here, just how we wanted to end our time in Thailand. We checked out some restaurants, bars and massage places then decided that the weather is too good to pass up and headed back to put our bathers on and hit the beach. The beach is just a few steps away from our front door, the view is beautiful and there is hardly a breath of wind accompanying the bright blue sky. We set our towels down and ventured into the warm calm waters that make up our perfect beach here. I was snapping a couple of photos when I felt something brush past my leg and a stinging feeling. I walked back to the sand and had Alvo look at it, she pulled off tentacle kind of things. I can't be sure but I think it was some kind of jellyfish. My skin was stinging and burning so I headed to my towel, bugger the water......sunbathing it is. I felt so tired and feel asleep on the beach under the watchful eye of Alvo of course. Alvo had a beer, read her book and swam some more before we decided to head up to the Saturday market. It is a short walk away and well worth it. So much delicious food, oh the smell.....and some clothing stalls. We looked around and first stop was the pork stick lady and oh man were they good, the best ones yet and then we tried a steamed fish curry wrapped in pandanus leaves which was really good, a little spicy for Alvo but the flavour was great. We saw some fried fat noodles and laap so bought some of each along with some sticky rice and little coconut deserts for later. We wanted to eat at the market while our food was hot so sat at a little bar and enjoyed our goodies. They were all great and we decided to grab some fried chicken and mango sticky rice to take away. We walked to the edge of the market and I found the type of shirt I had been looking for everywhere and it is pink so had to buy it. Time to head back, on the way we noticed a lot of old style classic motorbikes being ridden by guys with leather vests on. They headed to a campground where we are guessing there is some sort of club get together. Some of them are very noisy. We noticed the beautiful sunset and couldn't pass up the photo opportunity and a walk on the beach. We have not seen many sunsets since we have been away but when we do see them they are beautiful and worth the effort to get out with the camera. Back at our room we settled in for the night and are relieved that we do not have an alarm to set for the morning. Tanya xxx.