Friday 27th and we has been having fun

So much for the plans for the night, the hotel is on the outskirts of the town so we are really a captive audience, like “birds in a guilded cage” so to speak. However, despite the high standards, William and Sandra spent half an hour killing “mossies @ B52’s” before the Staff arrived with the spray cans – having been called by half of our group.

At this stage we had discovered an alternative method of opening a can of beer other than using a banana !! which was verging on the near impossible - so with chilled cans of Heineken , gins with Tango, back here in the room we are happy as wee porkers in the mire !!

We feel it a bit for the singles in the group, apart form the sandwich man , who is probably sitting watching TV , drinking his complimentary tea and coffee and munching though a half loaf and ham, with butter from the Lampang Lodge.

Last night they had no TV , etc, lots of mossies on the walls, things dropping off the trees onto the roof of the chalets, - but tonight it is the opposite.

We are not too amused with the tour Company, the rep keeps sticking in optional tours which you have to pay to him – so obviously someone is at the lash - today’s short boat trip cost us £10 each, so in this place £140 for two hours work is just something different !!
Tomorrow – he has added in an elephant ride, which if we take will benefit the elephant orphanage; and a trip on a river raft !! probably run by his cousin. His other comment was that we might well stop off to visit shops where we could buy trinkets and gifts. But we still have four days of the official tour to go and then a week in Phuket – so additional shops to look at mass produced “Tat” is not really an option.
Unfortunately – so far, this trip organised by Travelsphere / Cosmos / Archers does not compare favourably with our last trip to China.

In one of the Comment Books we saw during the trip, someone wrote “ The people are very nice but they only tolerate us for our money” - a comment which I agree with. BUT , then again , we still have time to go.

Question - does anyone know if sparky is off the mountain - or has he met another woman ?

Andy F @ tattie peel keeps sending me jokes - where was he when I needed a laugh.

Report needed on Shrek and claire is he being good and has she recovered.
Byr