Excuses, excuses

So my trip blogging has failed. Badly.

Sorry! I am rubbish. Basically the Internet is not my friend, and when it is actually working it is slow. So it takes hours to upload photos. I gave up in Thailand, thinking I would be able to catch up in Australia when I was only moving on once a week, but actually the Internet connections were better in Thailand!

I am now in New Zealand and we move on every other or every two days.

So here I am facing facts that I have failed.

Oh well at least I can spend the next six months at home reliving my trip!

I do have lots to share.

I don’t want to start blogging Australia or New Zealand when I was still blogging Thailand so I’ll just wait. So I’ll be back here mid February.

There are better things to be doing on a trip like this than spending hours in front of a computer.

:)

My First Market

*I should also add that I’m sorry I haven’t been posting as much as I thought, we’ve had computer issues! Will hopefully be blogging again now.*

The markets in Thailand, as some of you will know are crazy good.

We found one just outside of Friendship Beach one evening and legged it over to take photos and drool over beautiful vegetables, fish, meat and cute sweet treats.

I just wanted to show you, if you didn’t already know how colourful and amazing they are.

The colours of the fruit and vegetables are beautiful.

The seafood and fish. Just ridiculous. I have never seen prawns so big, and so many fish, crabs and lobsters still alive, and trying to get away.

I don’t even know what the things in the shell are, and the stall holder couldn’t speak English, anyone know? They are crazy!

And the fast food… such an amazing choice and all so pretty wrapped up in banana leaves.

The fast food and take away food choice in Thailand is amazing, and cheap too. The food is good and tasty. How often can you say that about take out in the UK. It’s generally not cheap either. The culture of food is so different here, for many reasons but I think the weather, being able to be outside is a big factor.

Something I loved, the fact you can get sushi and dim sum here, again so cheap! And the dim sum, a pain in the bum to eat on the go certainly not as elegant as eating in a restaurant but damn it’s tasty! Didn’t try the sushi here, my western nerves not quite strong enough!

Eating on the go, snacks anyway, is huge here. You can get anything on a stick. They particularly love meat on a stick.

The Husband got some BBQ squid on a stick, it was way too spicy for me (wimp) but it said it was and I quote some ‘tasty s***’ s there you go!

They have these Thai scotch egg things everywhere, I still haven’t found out what they are. I’m scared after trying a salt egg to eat one.

These doughnuts looked amazing! I went back for one later. Gone.

So this was my first market but we have been to many since , I even had a tour around one with a guide to tell me about all the vegetables, herbs, pastes, fish etc which was very cool so you’ll have more markets posts yet!

Baan Kalim

A very small recommendation for you. Purely on the fact that we ate some amazing squid here.

We spotted this place from the beach, it looked like it had shade and a nice view so we stomped up the hill.

Watermelon Juice, of course. There are worse things to be addicted to.

I ate a pad Thai, which was strange, not sure if it’s a regional thing or if everything makes their Pad Thai differently but it had a reddish colour. Still tasty though! The Husband would not allow this to be called Pad Thai so would be interested to know more about the different versions. Are you a purist?

And the reason I am sharing this. A big massive delicious squid.

I love how every drink and every plate of food is so pretty here.

Baan Kalim – Patong, Phuket, Thailand

3 Spices – Patong

So along with eating at very cheap restaurants, we have been treating ourselves as well. This is the honeymoon after all!

So on a ‘date night’ (difficult to distguinish when eating out every night) we got a little dressed up and went to 3 Spices.

It is a great spot for watching the chaos of Patong at night.

We had a great table high from the street so we didn’t get bothered with people selling all kinds if everything but we could see everything.

We once again ordered more than we could eat.

First we shared some squid, we are trying to order just right its just not working.

The squid in Thailand so far has been standardly amazing, and this was no exception, but very light cut into tiny pieces perfect for a light starter.

Then we shared a red curry with duck. This was beautiful. I couldn’t get enough. Best curry I have had so far.

And another favourite of ours, chilli basil prawns. This was hot, not quite hot enough for the Husband but enough for me!

The whole time we ate these trucks were parading Muai Thai boxers around advertising a fight.

Then another favourite of The Husbands, sticky rice and mango, and my first try of this dish. I can see why he loves it so.

The tuk tuk’s here are pimped out. It’s amazing. Their music however is not.

3 Spices is non the main strip 1 street over from the beach, you can’t miss it.

The Nap

I have already talked about this Hotel on Swoon, The Nap, but I wanted to write a separate post here because the restaurant here is also great and a very glam place to spend an evening.

Just 1 piece of advice, the chairs are low so don’t wear anything too short ladies!

Our fruit platter when we arrived, too pretty not to show you.

So our first lunch here I ordered seafood noodles. It was delicious, with a good portion of the thick yellow noodles with vegetables, squid, fish and a huge mussel with a poached egg.
It was also served with a small clear soup, spring onions and what we thick were some pork stratchings. It was great and I was gutted we had agreed to share dishes!

We also ordered the fried rice, which came with some clear soup, prawns and a salt egg. I tried this and it was not good. I didn’t like that at all. Anyone tried this and liked it?

Below is a very pretty port salad, very spicy. My husband enjoyed this.

All the food we ate here was beautiful, this was from their healthy menu, feared towards eating well and giving nutitional information, this was supposed to help me sleep.

I swear I kicked my jet lag that night.

They also had a great bar, with a couple of long happy hours every day.

I tried cocktails of many colours.

So many hotel restaurants are blah, was great to have somewhere with such lovely food.

The Nap – Patong, Phuket, Thailand