On Our Way Home!

you may remember on our way up to Udon Thanni we stopped off at the top of the mountains? well this is the name of the restaurant to look out for, on your right on the way up,

I decided to blend in with the tourists on the way back and wear a colourful tourist shirt, unfortunately I blended in to well, again on the way back we were stopped 3 times by the police, at one stop one of them wanted 500 baht! outrageous! luckily he eventually settled for100,

a view of the restaurant from the road, if you are tempted to take a picture like this remember at this point the road is downhill and traffic tends to speed up!

also in the grounds there is this coffee shop, and a view into the restaurant where local goods are for sale,

another ice coffee for me and food for the girls,

well I suppose it had to happen, years ago when I used to go to Buriram regularly I would see three serious accidents like this each way, but things are getting safer now, we only saw one on the way up, a gas carrier had over turned and this one on the way back, the mountains here used to be a particularly bad spot with runaway rigs, but now most of it is two lanes and there are runoff areas, it is now a lot safer, we arrived home about 5 in the afternoon, a real refreshing break from Pattaya, in all we travelled just over 1,700 kilometers in the 4 days we were gone and it was lovely, everything up there is so laid back compared to Pattaya, would I go again? you bet!

so next thing food, it was back to Third Road for some delicious chicken soup,

so many stalls to chose from,

then home, feet up and watch a few DVD's!