Yesterday we needed peace and quiet to recover from the huddle and bustle of Bangkok so we gate crashed a hotel pool down the road from our hostel. ...I know, we so rebellious!
We had some food and drink there so they allowed us to use the pool all day, the pool was freezing but so refreshing! The heat here is heavy and the sun is very piercing.
Not feeling to good today with the ole' bowl system, getting stomach cramps when I eat and drink and having to scout out the toilet distance (just incase) so I've started a five day course of India's antibiotics we bought whilst we were out there. Hopefully they will do the trick and nip it in the bus before i feel any worse!
This evening we went for a bite to eat at an Italian, and face timed the fam-a-lam which cheered me up a lot, haven't got used to not having then around again yet.
Of course they were in wetherspoons having a 'proper pint' and a 'proper steak' but the weather is s*** at home so that's one thing I'm glad I'm missing out on!
There were a lot of those seedy old bald men with young feminine thai boys in this restaurant, wasn't expecting that! I thought it was just lady boys or thai brides here, each to their own..
Big Game on tonight... Man utd v Southhampton so we went in a bar on walking street to watch it, Scott got right underneath the screen so if anyone was trying to watch it from the same screen behind him they'd have his big goofy head in the middle of it! I on the other hand was aw to busy lady boy watching! I play a game with myself to see whether or not they're men or women! Some make it so obvious that they are men, forgetting to shave their top lip or pluck their eyebrows... I mean if your trying to pull it off go all out!
Spotted to prostitutes stood outside a pharmacy store playing with their hair and fluttering the eyelashes, nobody approached them though so no juicy gossip there.
Spotted a man that was in the same bar as us last night, best to leave it as that I think.. *BOFF*

I'd like to know if these girls actually aspire to be these stripper/work n show girls or prostitutes or do they do for money hoping to find a 'rich' European man that will take care of them because they've heard it through the grape vine that on the odd occasion they get taken care of money wise; because not every man here looking for a thai bride has money to keep them, the men want the girls to take care of them and do their washing and cleaning.
Majority of European men with a thai girl on the arm is at least two third younger than him and they're usually sat at a bar in awkward silence because they don't have anything in common to talk about or the girl can hardly speak english. They're the ones that genuinely don't look happy!

Anyways, I was falling asleep at the bar but would get rudely woken up by Scott jumping off the stool and banging to bar because the red dots on the tele were doing something wrong... Then an English man who was a Southampton support piped up trying to wind Scott up... I literally wanted to punch him in his fat nose. He does not need anymore winding up he already looks like a tomato out of rage! My scowl was pretty fierce tonight because I accidentally looked at him and showed my disgust, he turned around then. '....yeah don't mess with me tonight I'm ill and tired. -_-.'

Why is it that all these truck drivers or motorcycle taxi guys want to take you somewhere else to where your asking to go! It's so annoying.
We asked two motorcycle guys to take us to Sri Mongkol bus station on central Pattaya road, that was too difficult he wanted to get me a minibus to Bangkok and then he gave me a card for a taxi, asked me for my hotel in Chang Mai. What?! NO. The more we kept saying no, just the central road the more cards he kept giving us so I just had to walk away before I screamed. Tried to hail a truck down, they don't want to know you when you need them - typical.
Eventually managed to find one parked on the road, he 'knew' where we were going. Asked him to stop on central Pattaya road where the directions for the bus terminal told us to go... No! He knew where we had to go, did he hell! He took us to the wrong bus terminal. I was right he was wrong, don't mess with the navigation women mate, I've been here two days and I know this place like the back of my hand, silly man. A Dutch man at the station helped us out so we got rid of that taxi driver and got a decent one that knew where he was going so we could get our bus tickets to Kanchanburi! It only took two hours to get them...
Walked miles down to the beach to let off some steam and got drawn in by 'masssaaaaage' we had an hours thai massage each - well needed! We yanked and swung and beaten by our masseuse's our backs clicked a lot! I felt like jelly after coming out which felt rather good!
Went back to gate crash the same pool, some cracking entertainment watching the Chinese attempt to swim and have 'photo shoots' in the pool. None of them smile on photos... Is it because they don't want their eyes to disappear? Because Scott sometimes gets that problem but he still smiles, hehe! Aw only joking, or not.
Having an early night tonight so a quick bite to eat, Scott have his left over pizza to a young girl with her baby begging on the street, trying to keep his Good Samaritan reputation up!
Spotted some fried frogs, scorpions, cockroaches and maggots on a street vendor this evening, they looked delicious... Not! I'm going to have to stomach it at some point though, need to get myself syked up for it!

Pattaya is... different. A nice holiday destination with a massive range of restaurants and bars with he of a lot of tattoo parlours, lady boy bars and gentlemen's clubs in the mix. The beach isn't a that great, it's just rammed with parasols so no sun gets to you one little bit if you sit under one. Other than that it has a good vibe, chilled but busy all the time! I've liked it here, good potential for people watching!