Songkarn 2008

On 2008 Songkarn Holidays, we went to Hua Hin and stayed in Baan Kai Muk. Hua Hin was packed with locals and tourists on their pick-up trucks throwing water to each other, some standing on the roadside splashing water over people riding in vehicles or stopping motorcyclists to brush din-saw-pong on their faces. That's the reason that we mostly stayed in the condo, we ate almost delivery food provided, Pizza Co., KFC, Burger King. We enjoyed relaxing, massage, sleeping, reading, and swimming. It was a peaceful holiday.

It was windy make P.Ou sleep during massage.

SomSong PoChaNa

Somsong Pochana is one of our favorite food shops in the Phra Sumeru area. It is quite hard to find parking space during weekday so we usually go on weekend while sending Noon to class at Thammasat University. Somsong Pochana, which has been in business for more than 34 years, is known for its delicious, small bowls of Sukhothai-style pork noodles, kanom jeen sao nam (Thai rice vermicelli with chopped fresh pineapple, dried shrimp, sliced chillies, sliced garlic and a squeeze of lime), various Thai dishes that go with steamed rice and old-style Thai desserts, which are also served with warm coconut milk.

The dry noodles (guay tiew haeng), it is already tasty, I have never put additional seasonings.

Kanom jeen sao nam of this place is one of my favorite dishes.

You can sit in front of the food shops if the sun is not too hot. The restaurant is in Soi Wat Sangvesworawiharn Alley left of Phra Sumeru Fort.

Pin has gone to Tasmania, Australia

On April 2, 2008, we went to send Pin, one of my lovely cousin, to study in Tasmania, Australia. Tasmania is an Australian and state of the same name with its estimated population of 493,000 as of June 2007. She is in Hobart, the state capital and largest city in the island, and will be there for at least 6 months. I wish she could get what she expected and is expected. And I hope I could visit her before she went back.

Gold Coast, Australia

I wrote about trip to Gold Coast, Australia which I went there in May, 2007. Please read in My Notable Itinerary and click at Blog Archive "May 2007".