It Is Really Raining Hard Here This Morning,

and the Internet is at snails pace so on with the blog,

we decided to have breakfast at Holland House along Jomtien,

it has rooms above,

the view towards Pattaya,

and a equally quite view towards Sattahip, inside the restaurant was spacious and most importantly clean,

and the view across the road,

we both had an ice coffee with cinnamon sprinkled on top with caramel, nice touch,

breakfast is served,

a beef roll for me and a ham roll for Diana,

and very nice it was to, 285 baht complete,

now what has this motorbike and sidecar

got in common with this one? well according to the Chief Technician of the Chonburi Land Transport Department, all sidecars are illegal unless (and this is the truly bizarre part) they are attached to a Tiger motorbike, those are the Chonburi rules, (Pattaya is in the jurisdiction of Chonburi), I found this on a chat page, the writer had his Thai wife check all of this out as he was fined 1,000 baht for having a modified motorbike, attaching a sidecar is considered to be a modification, despite several going past whilst the ticket was being written, it appears they were 'different', you have been warned!

then before I could start on the trains Mr. Tony called round, he will be going back to the UK in a couple of days, then Jay and Precil called in, so it was a chat and more than a few teas upstairs, just before they left Mark called in,

by then it was getting dark and we were hungry, so down to the food stalls, Diana and Precil had already been to the market in the afternoon, so we had sweetcorn and bugs already,

the soup stall was as busy as ever, but still strangely many stalls were not there,

then cup of tea, feet up and we watched the second series of Judge John Deed, the good news is that Diana's command of English is good enough for her with a few explanations from me able to understand the plots, which makes it great for both of us, after that it was time for bed.